Betsy McKay
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Vaccinate the world against COVID? Why the ambitious multi-billion dollar plan to protect the world’s poor failed
The Covax program, conceived in early 2020 as a kind of Operation Warp Speed for the globe, was supposed to ...
‘When, where and how’: WHO report on COVID’s origins leaves many unanswered questions
A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic said in a report that data examined during ...
WHO COVID investigative team finds evidence suggesting first infections occurred in October 2019 or earlier
China’s disclosures to the WHO raise questions about the possibility that Covid-19—which has now killed more than 2.3 million people—was ...
Deadly coalition: Anti-vaxxers merging with anti-mask advocates
Opponents of vaccine requirements have found common ground during the pandemic with people suspicious of drug companies, business shutdowns and ...
Can the CDC recover its credibility in the midst of its COVID debacle?
White House advisers have made line-by-line edits to official health guidance, altering language written by CDC scientists on church choirs, ...
The world was making progress against killer flus. Then COVID hit.
The number of people living in extreme poverty globally has risen 7.1% so far this year in the pandemic, according ...
How the World Health Organization fumbled its preparations for a global pandemic
The WHO spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars honing a globe-spanning system of defenses against a pandemic it ...
