Tuesday marks six months since the first reports of Covid-19, says WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who said the pandemic has brought out the best and the worst of humanity.He was speaking as there were reports of a global death toll of 500 000. The number of cases worldwide is up to 10 million.Ghebreyesus said…
the new coronavirus hasn't gone away, and the death toll in the United States continues to climb.In fact, the number of deaths in the U.S. has topped the estimated total of 116,000 fatalities from the country's second-worst pandemic, the flu in 1957. The only pandemic blamed for more American fatalities is the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918,…
If you’d asked me, when our baby was born in November, how likely it was that I’d decide to delay his vaccinations against the doctor’s recommendations for several months, I’d have told you there was absolutely no chance. I report on global health; I know that the diseases vaccination has virtually eradicated in the US…
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