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Early morning here in the United States. 4 00 a. M. And we start with what will be a busy week. Two major events playing out politically here in the u. S. First, the u. S. President s impeachment trial, its drawing closer to its end. The verdict, almost certain to been acquittal. While that plays out in washington, democrats in iowa will hold their caucuses, deciding which of their president ial hopefuls they would like to see take on the president. In the impeachment trial, were seeing the impact of the senate vote to block witnesses and documents. It means we may never see emails the Justice...

This is the question that is on the lips of many people working in global health as we enter into the final stretch of negotiations for a pandemic accord. Deliberations are taking place in the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), which was tasked with drafting an instrument in an ambitious timeline of two years—considerably shorter than most international legal negotiations—with an assumption that the severity of covid-19 would inspire the world’s governments to come together and seek a better path for preventing, preparing for, detecting, and responding to future pandemics.1 The Tr...

As the WHO mulls when to call the Covid pandemic over, attention is turning to the future

Dr Tedros will be joined by the head of the UN, despite some Western governments boycotting the event due to China’s human rights record

What Would It Take to Vaccinate the World Against Covid? Peter S. Goodman, Apoorva Mandavilli, Rebecca Robbins and Matina Stevis-Gridneff © Gulshan Khan for The New York Times Health workers waiting to enter a vaccination center at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, last week. In delivering vaccines, pharmaceutical companies aided by monumental government investments have given humanity a miraculous shot at liberation from the worst pandemic in a century. But wealthy countries have captured an overwhelming share of the benefit. On...