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Center for Global Development: DFC’s December Board Meeting: A Fitting Bookend for the Agency’s First Year Clemence Landers, policy fellow, and Jocilyn Estes, program coordinator and policy outreach assistant, both at CGD, discuss the Development Finance Corporation’s (DFC) efforts and portfolio in 2020, writing, “DFC’s inaugural year leaves us with…

Center for Global Development: Questions on the COVID-19 Vaccine? We’ve Got Answers Anthony McDonnell, senior policy analyst at CGD, and Robert Van Exan, president at Immunization Policy and Knowledge Translation, answer nine questions regarding the COVID-19 vaccine pipeline, including questions on vaccine supply and prioritization, clinical trials, and efficacy (12/17).

ONE Campaign: 4 things leaders must do to end the pandemic This blog post outlines four steps governments, companies, and philanthropists involved in the development of a medication or vaccine for COVID-19 must take in order to achieve an equitable path toward ending the pandemic (12/17).

Reuters: EXCLUSIVE — WHO vaccine scheme risks failure, leaving poor countries no COVID shots until 2024 “The global scheme to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to poorer countries faces a ‘very high’ risk of failure, potentially leaving nations home to billions of people with no access to vaccines until as late as…

STAT: One-quarter of the world may not get a Covid-19 vaccine until 2022, experts warn “As wealthy governments race to lock in supplies of Covid-19 vaccines, nearly a quarter of the world’s population — mostly in low- and middle-income countries — will not have access to a shot until 2022,…

The Hill: FDA says Pfizer vaccine supply is up to 40 percent higher than previously thought as vials hold multiple doses “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday said that health officials may be able to obtain as many as seven doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine from vials initially…

NPR: China Has A Theory About Its New COVID-19 Cases. Many Scientists Are Skeptical “China now reports few to none domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases — only 12 cases were reported on Dec. 15. But a flurry of recent cases has Chinese public health officials worried. They claim that the cases…

CIDRAP News: COVID-19 surges stretch health systems in U.S., elsewhere “COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States continue to climb, with some declines seen in some Upper Midwest states, but surging activity in states such as California. In Europe, some countries are struggling with slowing their activity in…

Foreign Policy: WTO Meeting Pits Rich Against Poor In Fight For Vaccines “…South Africa and India are leading a group of low- and middle-income countries calling for a waiver on intellectual property rights on products related to the pandemic — including personal protective equipment, therapeutics, and vaccines. China has also…