Category COVID-19

News and hard-hitting, insightful, thoughtful, evidence-based, provocative, and progressive analysis of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

WHO: Delta, the most transmissible of current SARS-CoV-2 variants, “is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated populations”

Delta, the “most transmissible” of the eleven currently identified variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, “has been identified in at least 85 countries, and is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated populations,” according to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Obert Madondo
June 26, 2021

COVID-19 vaccines donated in 2022 “will be far too late for those who are dying today”: WHO chief

Life-saving COVID-19 vaccines donated in 2022, instead of this year, “will be far too late” for millions of people “who are dying today, or being infected today, or at risk today” in the low- and middle-income countries of the Global South, says WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Obert Madondo
June 23, 2021

EU stands firm with Big Pharma against COVID vaccine patent waivers

The European Union is now the main obstacle to the South Africa-India proposal to waive TRIPS intellectual property rights on life-saving COVID-19 vaccines and save the lives of billions of people in the Global South, new research reveals.

The Canadian Progressive
June 14, 2021

COVAX is failing to halt the COVID-19 pandemic: here’s why, and how to fix it

COVAX, the WHO-led facility created "to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardless of income level," is failing to stop the global spread COVID-19, argues Monica de Bolle, a Johns Hopkins University professor.

The Canadian Progressive
June 11, 2021