Washington Post: CDC and drugmakers boost flu vaccine doses amid fears of an unprecedented respiratory illness season “Worried about a simultaneous assault of the novel coronavirus and seasonal influenza this winter, public health officials and vaccine manufacturers are making millions of extra flu vaccine doses to protect those most vulnerable…

Brookings Institution’s “Future Development”: AI: The complex solution to simplify health care Drew Arenth, chief business officer at macro-eyes (6/16). Brookings Institution’s “Future Development”: Inequality, the SDGs, and the human rights movement in the U.S. and around the world Sarah Mendelson, distinguished service professor of public policy and head of…

U.N. News: COVID-19: Preparations for southern flu season must be a priority: WHO’s Tedros “Despite the ongoing global response to COVID-19, the world cannot lose sight of the significant public health risk posed by influenza, which affects every country every year and takes its own deadly toll, World Health Organization…

Bloomberg Law: U.S. Role at Risk in Next Flu Vaccine With WHO Withdrawal “The CDC could lose the ability to select next year’s flu vaccine if the Trump administration follows through with terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization. ‘The selection of the influenza vaccine every year is a…

Bloomberg: Egypt Should Deal With the Pandemic’s Social Impact Amr Adly, assistant professor at the American University in Cairo (6/11). Devex: Opinion: COVID-19 — it’s time to take cash to the next level Caroline Holt, Global Cash lead at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (6/11).…

ABC Science: The next pandemic is coming — and sooner than we think, thanks to changes to the environment (Dulaney, 6/7). Boston Globe: Vaccines have saved millions of lives, but history shows missteps can prove deadly (Saltzman, 6/6). The Guardian: ‘Rolling emergency’ of locust swarms decimating Africa, Asia, and Middle…

Borgen Magazine: Telemedicine in Developing Countries (Barnes, 5/15). CNBC: ‘Superbugs’ are a hidden danger in the fight against coronavirus, says former CDC director (Cher, 5/13). Financial Times: Special Report: Future of AI and Digital Healthcare (Multiple authors, 5/14). The Guardian: Kenya’s pastoralists face hunger and conflict as locust plague continues…

CDC’s “Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal”: Collateral Benefit of COVID-19 Control Measures on Influenza Activity, Taiwan Shu-Chen Kuo, attending physician and associate investigator at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan, and colleagues discuss research findings that show decreases in influenza diagnoses…

BMJ Opinion: Coronavirus has been an unpleasant wake-up call of more than one sort James Hospedales, director of the Defeat-NCD partnership, and Chris Newman, medical doctor and co-founder of Doctors for XR (4/22). Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF): Racing to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in over 70 countries…

The Nation: Exclusive: The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming “Despite President Trump’s repeated assertions that the Covid-19 epidemic was ‘unforeseen’ and ‘came out of nowhere,’ the Pentagon was well aware of not just the threat of a novel influenza, but even anticipated the consequent scarcity of…