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Vaccines: In South Korea, the value of vaccines is built into the country’s economic DNA

June 24, 2020 Anticentric

Even as vaccine hesitancy reemerges as an issue in parts of the world, South Korea is counting on its effective vaccination program and vaccine manufacturing capacity to recover from Covid-19 as fast as possible.

Anti-vaxxers: Vaccine hesitancy rears its head around the world as agencies work to reach everyone

June 9, 2020 Sergio Held

At a time when a vaccine is badly needed to get the world back to a post-Covid normal, vaccine hesitancy is on the rise in many places. The consequences could be dire and long-lasting.

Myths and misinformation a scourge to health care across South Asia

June 2, 2020 Khawar Khan

As dangerous as Covid-19 has proven to be, it is made worse by misinformation, fear and illiteracy.

Between a virus and a hot place: Amazon tribes move across borders and face extinction

May 24, 2020 Sergio Held

Indigenous tribes in the Amazon rainforest could be disproportionally affected by the spread of COVID-19. Governments are not working together to deal with the challenge.

‘We have to accept that not developing a vaccine is a possibility’: A philosopher in the age of pandemic

May 20, 2020 Anticentric

Mookie Tenenbaum: ‘Humans aren’t robots. You can’t tell people to stay six feet apart forever.’

Vaccines: Level of mistrust remains high despite overabundance of data

May 6, 2020 Alfred Romann

Despite enormous amounts of evidence as to how helpful vaccines are, doubts continue to exist.

Pakistan’s first COVID-19 patient: “Please, please stay at home”

April 27, 2020 Khawar Khan

COVID-19 patient in Pakistan contracted the coronavirus in late February and was in isolation days later. “The symptoms and the severity of the disease were very high. I felt pain in my whole body. I couldn’t move my hands. The 10 days of quarantine… were very tough.” First patient urges

COVID-19: South Korean elections show effective response to outbreak can gather support

April 16, 2020 David Ho

South Korea’s Minjoo Democratic Party won a landslide victory on the back of its effective response to Covid-19 as well as its liberal agenda.

COVID-19: In Canada, quarantines and precautions are the concern for many

March 3, 2020 Alfred Romann

The fear that the coronavirus outbreak has caused can be difficult to understand in places where the outbreak has been relatively small. And yet, it is right there and impossible to ignore. For some of us, it is not so much fear as the understanding that it makes very little

COVID-19: Living in quarantine in Beijing

February 21, 2020 Anticentric

Beijing has been dead quiet since I returned to the city at the beginning of February. We have had a smattering of snow during this period. When the first snow came in November, the whole city was so excited and people came to the park to play in it. But these days, only a