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WHO calls for global moratorium on COVID boosters until end of September

Enlarge / WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The World Health Organization on Wednesday called for a global moratorium on countries offering third doses—booster shots—of COVID-19 vaccines to their general populations until at least the end of September. The call comes in light of the vast inequity in vaccine distribution worldwide, with high-income countries gobbling up […]

CDC releases updated “science based” school guidelines

Enlarge / Rochelle Walensky during the announcement of her nomination to head the CDC. (credit: Jim Watson, Getty Images) As the US approached the start of the school year in 2020, the guidance it received from the federal government was a mess. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a series of documents in late […]

The Largest Mistakes the Trump Government made in Reaction to COVID

New study in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health details the U.S. administration’s egregious mishandling of this COVID-19 pandemic,” describes a potent predictor of both COVID-19 deaths, also indicates answers that could nevertheless relieve the pandemic’s harm. The research’s damning judgment:”The evidence indicates that unsuccessful national policies and opinions, particularly compared to people […]