Wins, missteps and lessons: African experts reflect on two years of Covid response
The fact that two years into the pandemic, the North-South disparities and unequal power structures in global health are still intact is a huge cause for concern
How drug companies are sidestepping the WHO’s technology transfer hub in Africa
Moderna’s decision to continue making the vaccine itself, though on the Kenyan site, is a signal that the company (at least for the moment) is not considering licensing its technology to a third party for local manufacture.
Here’s where and how you are most likely to catch COVID – new study
All variants of SARS-CoV-2 are equally airborne, but the chance of catching COVID depends on the transmissibility or contagiousness of the variant (delta was more contagious than previous variants
COVID: Why T cell vaccines could be the key to long-term immunity
COVID antibodies don’t persist that well – hence the desire for boosters.
How Covid affected markets and livelihoods in Kenya’s fisheries sector
The Kenyan coastal fishery supports more than 23,000 fishers catching over 16,000 tonnes of fish annually.
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Has the pandemic fundamentally changed our ethics?
Trust has always been morally important. However, the pandemic moved questions of trust to the very centre of everyday decision-making.
China beat the coronavirus with science and strong public health measures, not just with authoritarianism
People in China are able to move around freely right now. Many Americans may believe that the Chinese are able to enjoy this freedom because of China’s authoritarian regime.
I’m an infectious disease doctor. Yes, I’m vaccinating our 5-year-old against Covid-19. Here is why you should too
The risk of children getting very sick or dying with Covid-19 is low, but the relative risk of severe outcomes and death that kids face when they acquire Covid-19 is extremely high.
What the coronavirus does to your body that makes it so deadly
Every coronavirus infection starts with a virus particle, a spherical shell that protects a single long string of genetic material and inserts it into a human cell.
Traffic jams are contagious. Understanding how they spread can help make them less common
Today, the most advanced method to measure and monitor traffic in cities uses anonymous location data from mobile phones with sophisticated mathematical and computer simulation models.
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