Blog Posts, Releases Address Various Topics Related To COVID-19 Pandemic, Including Vaccines; Implications For Malaria, Cholera; U.S. Response

Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: 193 Faith Leaders Urge Congress for Global COVID-19 Response (9/21).

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: Four steps to build trust in COVID-19 vaccines
Daniel R. Lucey, infectious diseases physician and adjunct professor of infectious diseases at Georgetown University Medical Center, senior scholar at the Georgetown University O’Neill Institute, anthropology research associate at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, and member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Global Health Committee (9/21).

International Rescue Committee: Deadly malaria and cholera outbreaks grow amongst refugees as COVID pandemic strains health systems, warns IRC (9/22).

The Lancet Infectious Diseases: COVID-19 in malaria-endemic regions: potential consequences for malaria intervention coverage, morbidity, and mortality
Miranda I. Teboh-Ewungkem, professor of practice in the Department of Mathematics at Lehigh University, and Gideon A. Ngwa, associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Buea (9/21).

The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria intervention coverage, morbidity, and mortality in Africa: a geospatial modeling analysis
Daniel J. Weiss of the Telethon Kids Institute at Perth Children’s Hospital and colleagues (9/21).

Pew Research Center: Americans give the U.S. low marks for its handling of COVID-19, and so do people in other countries
John Gramlich, senior writer/editor at the Pew Research Center (9/21).

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