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    COVID-19: It Ain’t Over Until There’s PPE All Over

    by Madeleine Ballard, Carey Westgate, The Community Health Impact Coalition

    None of us are safe until all health workers are protected. The time to start is now.

    Nurse Tatsanee Onthong, 26, receives help putting on PPE before attending to a COVID-19 patient in the ICU at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 22, 2020. Picture shows a nurse being helped into her PPE. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
    Gender

    Falling Through the Cracks: COVID-19 and the Rise of Maternal Deaths in Africa

    by Marleen Vellekoop, Meshack Acholla, Julia Hanne

    Africa’s unified pandemic response has saved lives, but reduced access to routine services puts women’s health in danger

    A woman walks past a graffiti promoting the fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya, on May 22, 2020. This is a striking photo of a woman in a blue dress wearing a facemask walking past a peach-colored wall with a graffiti of the Earth, also wearing a facemask, with bloodshot eyes and crying. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
    Urbanization

    Emergency Departments: A Site for Future COVID-19 Vaccinations

    by Amita Sudhir, Gigi Gronvall

    Given equity considerations, emergency departments should be used to expand vaccine distribution

    A woman walks away from a hospital emergency department amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., December 24, 2020
    Governance

    Uncertainty and the COVID-19 Pandemic

    by Abraham D. Flaxman, Kevin O’Rourke

    Understand and embrace uncertainty to get the most out of forecasts

    A man wears a protective facemask decorated with a question mark in lower Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York, U.S., May 22, 2020. Picture shows a well groomed man who appears to be in his 30s wearing a mask adorned with a huge question mark. REUTERS/Mike Segar
    Governance

    What's Next for COVID-19?

    by Tom Frieden

    Containment of the coronavirus would make an enormous difference to health around the world. Is it still possible?

    A colorized scanning electron microscope image of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, which causes COVID-19. Image shows a colorful molecular world with a bunch of worm-like dendrites, presumably biological material like cells, and bright orange cluster of spheres in the middle of the image. NIAID-RML image
    Governance

    Building COVID-19 Vaccine Production Capacity in LMICs

    by Reid Adler, Julia Barnes-Weise, Ana Santos Rutschman, Bridie Telford

    Patents aren't really the problem—usually

    A woman in a green sari receives a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, outside her house during a door-to-door vaccination drive on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, on December 15, 2021.
    Environment

    Revisiting the Origin Story of COVID-19

    by Erin M. Sorrell, Julie E. Fischer

    And why lab security in the age of COVID should be a priority

    Chinese scientists and officials wait at the Hubei Animal Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control Center during a visit with a World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of COVID-19, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on February 2, 2021.
    Governance

    Insuring 100 Million People During COVID-19

    by Melanie Coronel Santillan, Reiner Lorenzo J. Tamayo, Merla Rose D. Reyes , Swee Kheng Khor, Katherine Ann V. Reyes

    The Philippines' experience

    People wearing face masks as protection against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) queue outside a government office, in Caloocan City, Metro Manila, Philippines, February 1, 2021.
    Governance

    COVID-19 This Week: The Tide Is Beginning to Turn, But Is Still Very High

    by Tom Frieden

    The better we understand coronavirus, our risk, and our response with real-time intelligence, the better we can fight it

    Share of COVID-19 tests that are positive globally. The image is a graph. CC-BY/Our World in Data
    Food

    COVID-19 Shows Us It's Time to Tackle Obesity and Overweight

    by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Christopher Troeger, Theo Vos

    Lessons and cautionary tales from the anti-smoking movement show us a way to move forward

    A man smokes a cigarette next to a mural of a man wearing a protective mask amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 30, 2020. The photo shows a man wearing a mask pulled down around his chin smoking. Next to him is a mural of a worried-looking man in a mask. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
    Governance

    Models, Math, and COVID-19: A Public Health Response

    by Nina Schwalbe, ​​​​​​​Nathaniel Hupert

    Instead of focusing solely on deaths, policymakers should consider the totality of the pandemic's impact

    Indonesians queue to get free food without social distancing amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Bogor, Indonesia, on April 20, 2020. The photo shows a crush of people, many of them wearing face masks, crowded in all parts of the shot's frame. REUTERS/Antara Foto/Yulius Satria Wijaya
    Governance

    Religious Liberty in the Time of COVID-19

    by Elle Ruggiero

    Experts weigh in on vaccine exemptions and the role of religion in public health

    A protester holds a banner at a rally against mandates for the vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outside the New York State Capitol in Albany, New York.