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The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response was never likely to hand down a rosy report with gobbets of praise. Organised by the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus last May, the panel’s gloomy assessment ...

MarsBars/iStock (NEW YORK) -- Despite offers of lottery winnings, amusement park tickets and even cold hard cash, unvaccinated Americans are leaving tens of millions of unused doses for COVID-19 sitting on the shelves. Federal officials told state governors that as of earlier this week up to 53 million doses were still waiting to be ordered by the states -- a staggering amount that, depending upon the type of va...

As world grows desperate, US sits on tens of millions of unused COVID vaccine On Location: May 27, 2021 Replay Video UP NEXT Despite offers of lottery winnings, amusement park tickets and even cold hard cash, unvaccinated Americans are leaving tens of millions of unused doses for COVID-19 sitting on the shelves. Federal officials told state governors that as of earlier this week up to 53 million doses were still waiting to be ordered by the states – a staggering amount that, depending upo...

On Tuesday, May 18, Clatsop County voters hit the polls to decide special district elections. The unofficial votes have been tallied and the county clerk’s office has 20 days to

Gayle Smith told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on May 12: "There is no question but that we need a grand plan and the United States needs to be at the forefront of that," she said. Image: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images Now that the United States has made strides in vaccinating Americans against COVID-19, President Biden has said he wants to marshal global resources to stamp out the pandemic in even the worlds poorest countries. Its a goal that will require convincing othe...

Listen • 4:31 Gayle Smith told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on May 12: "There is no question but that we need a grand plan and the United States needs to be at the forefront of that," she said. Now that the United States has made strides in vaccinating Americans against COVID-19, President Biden has said he wants to marshal global resources to stamp out the pandemic in even the worlds poorest countries. Its a goal that will require convincing other wealth...

  As the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic unfolds, the United States has entered a new phase of heightened hope in the race to control the outbreak and get ahead of evolving variants. The U.S. government and health sector share an imperative to move quickly to immunize at scale and to address disparities in vaccine access at home and abroad. Doctor John Rajiv writes a note before receiving his first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in December 2020. | JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Ge...

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, plans to run for a second five-year term as the head of the agency, according to a person familiar with his thinking, setting up a referendum on the WHO’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic under his leadership. It is unclear at this point whether others will emerge to challenge the 56-year-old from Ethiopia, w...

Thursday, April 29, 2021 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm On Thursday, April 29 from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. EDT, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security and CSIS Economics Program will co-host a panel discussion on the major findings of a new Commission report: Creating Fiscal Space in the Covid-19 Era. This event will feature keynote remarks followed by a distinguished panel of experts, who will discuss innovative, concrete options for generating financial resources for pandemic prepa...

Calls for fair global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines By Elana Gordon © Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative, arrive at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, March 15, 2021. India said in March it would suspend vaccine exports until the viruss spread inside the country slows. The WHO recently described the supply situation as precarious. "Triple stupid." That i...