Two days after Pfizer’s hopeful vaccine news, 82% of doses already bought by world’s...
"Unless we break the stranglehold of these massive corporations over our medicines, the injustice will continue."
This city makes sure no one goes hungry—even during Covid
By long ago prioritizing residents’ right to healthy food, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, has been able to keep food flowing during the pandemic.
Federal court rules against FDA’s approval of genetically engineered salmon
"Today’s victory will stop FDA from green-lighting such dangerous technologies without fully considering their environmental risks.”
The medical mess
It seems odd that 12,000 foreign doctors can get residencies in the U.S. but 2,000 U.S. medical graduates cannot.
How immigrant communities are confronting COVID challenges
"With Caribbean people in general, we have a way of adapting to situations [that] we’re put into to make the most out of them.”
‘This is Trump’s failure’: US reports record 90,400+ Covid cases in just 24 hours—equivalent...
“Another record day of Covid cases. Not because of testing—but because President Trump has given up on controlling the virus and his administration has failed the American people.”
UN report says up to 850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless...
Rather than prioritising the prevention of pandemic outbreaks, governments around the world primarily focus on responding.
In rural America, resentment over COVID-19 shutdowns is colliding with rising case numbers
The early compassionate and cohesive community responses to COVID-19 quickly gave way to growing anger and compliance fatigue.
Universal mask-wearing would save nearly 130,000 lives by spring 2021, study finds
The researchers estimated what the death toll until March 2021 would be for each state if mask-wearing and social distancing mandates are put in place, versus if they are not.
The dangerous calls for ‘herd immunity’
As we’ve seen over decades with climate change, we are sure to begin to see actual experts like epidemiologists debating highly paid public speaking shills about herd immunity on cable news in the months ahead.