Global health leaders hail ‘monumental moment’ in Covid-19 fight as US supports vaccine waiver
“Countries that continue to oppose the WTO waiver—such as European Union countries, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Norway, Japan, and Brazil—must now take action, too.”
‘Millions of lives are at stake’: Pressure grows on Biden to back WTO waiver...
“The world needs 10 to 15 billion doses to reach herd immunity, and right now all of the global production together is on track to make 6 billion doses this year.”
Over a half-million Americans live near oil refineries with high levels of a cancer-causing...
More than a dozen U.S. oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under...
Third round of coronavirus relief checks led to largest monthly rise in household income...
The third round of coronavirus relief checks, which have been sent to 159 million households so far, were directly linked to an historic rise...
Oxford vaccine professor: rich countries have a moral duty to share their COVID-19 shots
Usually, World Immunisation Week is a chance for those of us who research vaccines to reinforce the message about their importance in saving lives....
Modi government is drowning India into a COVID- 19 Hell
India is gigantic — it's the world's second-most crowded country with almost 1.4 billion individuals — and its size presents uncommon difficulties to battling COVID-19.
Coalition calls for bold pricing reforms to save $450 billion on drug costs
"Allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and then reinvesting those savings back into the program to expand services further strengthens our path towards universal coverage for all."
How America can curb the epidemic of violence against health care workers
Health care professionals are five times more likely to encounter violence on the job than other Americans.
Big Pharma’s ‘appalling’ $26 billion in shareholder payouts could fund vaccines for all of...
“Instead of creating new vaccine billionaires, we need to be vaccinating billions in developing countries.”
The great forgetting
Why we forget epidemics and why this one must be remembered...