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“Busting the Myths” – May 16 From debunking conspiracy theories and supernatural claims to revealing disaster cover-ups and bad science communication, scientific experts from Italy, Germany, the Philippines and Japan separate truth from fiction as they examine how to rebuild a post-COVID world where science is central and critical thinking is crucial. Includes: Italian journalist/TV personality Massimo Polidoro ). INFODEMIC’s Director and Executive Producer, Robyn Rosenfeld, was sche...

Aspen Global Congress on Scientific Thinking & Action The following components of the March 17–20, 2021, co-organized by the Aspen Institute Science & Society Program (USA) and the Question of Science Institute (Brazil) in collaboration with the Aspen Institute Italia (Rome, Italy) and EquiTech Futures, were open to public audiences. We invited scientists, science advocates, science communicators, journalists, and interested and curious members of the public to attend. Wednesday, March 17, 1...

Many nations that have ordered CoronaVac are relatively poor, desperate to halt the pandemic and protect their population.

Karen Collins/Trunk Archive On 8 December 2020 in Coventry, UK, 90-year-old Margaret Keenan became the first person to receive a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine—the first coronavirus vaccine to be approved for emergency use in the west. (Moderna and the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines were made available soon after.) At last, there was a glimmer of hope that an end was in sight to the worst pandemic for more than a century. If we could get at least 70 per cent of a country’s population to h...

Jan 06 2021, 7:21 AM December 29 2020, 2:30 AM January 06 2021, 7:21 AM (Bloomberg) -- Of all the developing countries testing China’s Covid-19 vaccines, few are friendlier to Beijing than Pakistan. In the years leading up to the pandemic, China financed nearly $70 billion across the South Asian nation on roads, railways and power stations, and Pakistan now has two Chinese clinical trials underway, with even senior government officials being inoculated. (Bloomberg) -- Of all the developing...

Of all the developing countries testing China’s Covid-19 vaccines, few are friendlier to Beijing than Pakistan. In the years leading up to the pandemic, China financed nearly $70 billion across the South Asian nation on roads, railways and power stations, and Pakistan now has two Chinese clinical trials underway, with even senior government officials being inoculated. Yet interviews with people in Karachi, the nation’s biggest city -- as well as in other developing nations from Indonesia ...

Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in a tweet on Monday that Chinese-made vaccines may be the “only choice” for governments that haven’t secured supplies since “wealthy countries” had booked three quarters of the estimated 12 billion vaccines set for production next year. He separately told a briefing that the inactive Chinese vaccines can be distributed more widely than others using existing cold chain systems, and China would provide them to developing countries “on a pri...

‘Urgent info campaigns needed’ on COVID-19 vaccines Student nurses in Haiti prepare to administer a vaccine. Open vaccine science campaigns must be delivered urgently to address hesitancy and misinformation around COVID-19 vaccines, an expert panel heard. Copyright: Karen Kasmauski, MCSP and Jhpiego, (CC BY-NC 2.0) Speed read Scientists take to social media to offer young people vaccine knowledge Women must be included in information campaigns, say experts Share this article: Republish We...

In a study published in Science December 8, a group of researchers estimate that 76 percent of the population of Manaus, the first Brazilian city to be hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, could have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus so far, based on antibodies present in samples from blood banks. The report also estimates that in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, that percentage is much lower, accounting for 29 percent of the population. According to the paper, these results highli...