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STAT: Facebook rolls out a new vaccine misinformation policy — but leaves out pages where falsehoods thrive “Facebook rolled out a new policy on Tuesday aimed at cracking down on vaccine falsehoods, a ballooning problem for the social network as a growing number of users with neutral views about vaccines…
AP: Vaccine storage demands could leave 3B people in virus cold “From factory to syringe, the world’s most promising coronavirus vaccine candidates need nonstop sterile refrigeration to work. But despite great strides in equipping developing countries to maintain the vaccine ‘cold chain,’ nearly 3 billion of the world’s 7.8 billion…
The Conversation: South Asia: how to ensure progress on reducing poverty isn’t reversed by coronavirus Antonio Savoia, senior lecturer in development economics at the University of Manchester, and colleagues (10/6). IPS: Will COVID-19 Change the Global Balance of Power? Daud Khan, former United Nations official, and Leila Yasmine Khan, independent…
AP: U.K. hit by new virus test failing, finds 16,000 extra cases (Pylas, 10/5). Borgen Magazine: 10 Need to Know Facts About TB in Developing Countries (Carter, 10/5). CNN: Nigerian scientists develop cheaper and faster Covid-19 test kits (Busari/Sunday, 10/3). CNN: The race inside Russia’s coronavirus vaccine laboratory (Ullah/Chance, 10/5).…
Al Jazeera: Contact tracing is essential to break COVID-19 transmission Ibrahima Soce Fall, assistant director general for emergency response at the WHO (10/7). Devex: Opinion: Psychological first aid for front-line workers in quarantine Andy Solomon-Osborne, head of mental health and psychosocial support for Action Against Hunger’s Ethiopia team (10/6). Nature:…
AP: Germany, which had virus under control, sees a jump in cases (10/8). AP: Hard-hit Peru’s costly bet on cheap COVID-19 antibody tests (Armario/Chen, 10/7). AP: ‘Catastrophically short of doctors’: Virus wallops Ukraine (Chernov/Karmanau, 10/8). BBC News: Coronavirus: Iran sets new record for deaths amid ‘third wave’ (10/7). CNBC: Mandela’s…
Devex: Opinion: The COVID-19 gender mortality gap — is civil registration the answer? Carla AbouZahr, CRVS country adviser at Vital Strategies, and Joan Sara Thomas, interim deputy country director for the Vital Strategies’ Asia-Pacific regional office (10/9). Foreign Policy: Trump, COVID-19, and the Future of International Order Helen V. Milner,…
STAT: 7 looming questions about the rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine “…The design, testing, and mass production of multiple vaccines has never been attempted on this type of timeline, making this moment a turning point in the development of vaccines to respond to new disease threats. But the complexity of…
allAfrica: Africa: Drug Price Drop to Bolster African Countries’ Fight Against TB (Chironda, 11/12). Associated Press: Afghan capital’s air pollution may be even deadlier than war (Faiez, 11/13). Associated Press: Air quality sinks to ‘severe’ in haze-shrouded New Delhi (Jain, 11/12). BBC: Polio in Nigeria: ‘I opposed vaccinations until my…
ABC News: Ervebo approved as 1st Ebola vaccine “The world’s first Ebola vaccine is finally approved, a critical move that opens the door for its use in countries at high risk for the infectious disease. Just 48 hours after the European Commission granted marketing authorization for the vaccine, the World…
