“It’s a result of poor preparation, underinvestment in public health, political polarization, and Covid minimization,” said one physician. The Biden White House is reportedly preparing to ration coronavirus vaccines as Senate Republicans continue to obstruct a multibillion-dollar Covid-19 aid package, sparking outcry from public health experts who say GOP obstruction is hampering the nation’s pandemic response […]
An estimated 234,000 lives could have been saved with primary-series vaccination, the Kaiser Family Foundation found. Three in five reported Covid-19 deaths in the United States since June 2021 could have been prevented by vaccination, according to a new analysis out Thursday. With the U.S. approaching one million deaths from Covid-19, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) estimated that […]
“Zero for global Covid equals many needless deaths in poor countries—and heightened risk of new variants,” said one campaigner. Republican and Democratic congressional negotiators on Monday are reportedly set to announce a $10 billion coronavirus funding package that contains no money to fight the pandemic globally, prompting outrage from public health experts who say the decision will prolong […]
“To push for the termination of this lifesaving project in order to protect the interests of pharmaceutical companies is shameful,” said one advocate. Documents published Wednesday by a prominent medical journal reveal that a foundation representing the German company BioNTech—Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine partner—has been working behind the scenes to undercut African scientists’ burgeoning effort to produce an mRNA-based […]