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AP: Argentina hits 1 million cases as virus slams Latin America (Deluca et al., 10/20). AP: South Africa’s health minister gets COVID-19, as cases rise (Magome/Meldrum, 10/19). AP: Belgium fears virus ‘tsunami’ as COVID-19 cases keep soaring (Petrequin, 10/19). Borgen Magazine: The Philippines’ Birth Practices Facilitate Maternal and Infant Mortality…
The Hill: Government watchdog to investigate allegations of Trump interference at CDC, FDA “…The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said it had accepted a request from Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Patty Murray (Wash.) and Gary Peters (Mich.) to review whether the scientific integrity and communications policies of the Centers for…
KFF: COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker — Updated as of October 20, 2020 Data on country government actions in response to COVID-19 are included in the tracker (10/20). A KFF-curated recap of pandemic-related news from last week is available here. Additional KFF COVID-19 resources on the global situation, as well as those focused…
The Atlantic: We May Never Know the Full Story of COVID-19 Karl Taro Greenfeld, journalist, novelist, television writer, and author (10/20). Project Syndicate: How Israel Failed Its COVID Test Shlomo Ben-Ami, vice president of the Toledo International Center for Peace and former Israeli foreign minister (10/12). Project Syndicate: Boris Johnson’s…
The Hill: U.S. policy must adjust to transnational issues Jonathan Addleton, rector of Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan, and Alonzo Fulgham, executive vice president at VIATEQ “…[S]ome of the biggest issues of our time are transnational, impervious to national boundaries and increasingly irrelevant to them. Examples include migration, social…
The Hill: Loss for everyone as CDC’s standing erodes Leslie Roberts, professor at the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health “In recent weeks it has come to light that the White House blocked an effort by the U.S. Centers for Disease…
The Hill: Whatever happened to Deborah Birx? “Deborah Birx is nowhere to be found at the White House these days. Though she retains the title of coordinator of the White House coronavirus response, Birx has not attended any of President Trump’s press briefings on the pandemic since he started them…
AP: World struggles as confirmed COVID-19 cases pass 40 million “The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the planet has surpassed 40 million, but experts say that is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the true impact of the pandemic that has upended life and work…
KFF: COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker — Updated as of October 19, 2020 Data on country government actions in response to COVID-19 are included in the tracker (10/19). A KFF-curated recap of pandemic-related news from last week is available here. Additional KFF COVID-19 resources on the global situation, as well as those focused…
The Guardian: How do pandemics end? In different ways, but it’s never quick and never neat Mark Honigsbaum, lecturer at City University of London and author (10/18). STAT: We cannot rely on magical thinking: Herd immunity is not a plan Gigi Kwik Gronvall, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center…
