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Physician Alister Martin received one of the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from RN Jennifer Lisciotti at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., December 16, 2020.

Nursing Doubts About the Vaccine

by Susan Goodwin

Approximately two-thirds of U.S. nurses are hesitant or unwilling to accept the new coronavirus vaccines

Governance
They are informally honored—but are they officially counted? Activists stand at sunrise to memorialize victims of the coronavirus, near the Washington Monument in Washington, DC on August 27, 2020. The photo shows the monument in the thin morning lite with a silhouette line of people standing in the foreground. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Two Hundred Thousand and (Not) Counting

by Thoai Ngo , Charlotte Brasseux, Mingqi Song

The U.S. failure to collect social and community data hampers efforts to control COVID-19 and to address health inequity

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
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