Editorial, Opinion Pieces Address Various Topics Related To COVID-19, Including Contact Tracing, Mental Health Of Frontline Workers, Vaccine Development, Inequities In Access To Medical Oxygen
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: Plan now to speed vaccine supply for future pandemics
Kate Bingham, chair of the COVID-19 U.K. Vaccine Taskforce and managing partner at SV Health Investors (10/6).
Project Syndicate: Preventing the Next Zoonotic Pandemic
Vanda Felbab-Brown, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author (10/6).
STAT: Is ‘it can’t hurt’ the rationale for giving Trump unproven Covid-19 treatments?
Adam Cifu, internal medicine physician and professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, and Vinay Prasad, hematologist-oncologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (10/6).
STAT: Access to medical oxygen: a glaring global inequity
David Walton, physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Jim Ansara, founder of Shawmut Design and Construction, both co-founders of Build Health International (10/6).
Washington Post: Human volunteers can help ensure we have an effective vaccine more quickly
Editorial Board (10/6).
Washington Post: Americans want to trust the experts on the coronavirus. That isn’t easy
Stephanie Ternullo, PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Chicago (10/6).
The KFF Daily Global Health Policy Report summarized news and information on global health policy from hundreds of sources, from May 2009 through December 2020. All summaries are archived and available via search.