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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 scheduled to travel to Rome with a film crew to cover the Aspen Institute’s Global Congress on Scienti...

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, 11:00–11:45am EDT with welcome remarks 10:45–11:00am EDT by Aaron Mertz (Aspen Institute), Natál...

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 have a vaccine, we could attain the much sought-after ‘herd immunity’ and hope for a return to so...

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 countries testing China’s Covid-19 vaccines, few are friendlier to Beijing than Pakistan. In t...