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Senior citizens get inoculated with the Astra Zeneca vaccines offered by Japan for free, at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, following an increasing number of Covid-19 domestic infections and deaths, in New Taipei, Taiwan, 17 June 2021. The island has seen reported multiple deaths linked to the vaccination, amid an uncurbed outbreak causing impact on the economy.

Taiwan Recruits TSMC, Foxconn to Secure BioNTech Vaccines

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen expanded efforts to buy vaccines from Germ...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen expanded efforts to buy vaccines from Germany’s BioNTech Friday, meeting with leaders of two tech giants in an attempt to reach a deal hindered by complications involving China. Tsai met with...

Researchers at UCSD prepare a robot sampler that collects wastewater from the university sewage system.

Human Waste Could Be The Next Big Weapon in Controlling COVID-19

Wastewater is an untapped resource that public health experts are hoping to...

Wastewater is an untapped resource that public health experts are hoping to exploit as an early warning system for infectious diseases

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The U.S. Government Placed a Big Bet on an Antiviral Pill to Fight COVID-19

Antivirals work for other diseases; why not COVID-19?

For HIV/AIDS Survivors, COVID-19 Reawakened Old Trauma—And Renewed Calls for Change

Forty years ago this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preven...

Forty years ago this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report noted a rare lung infection among five otherwise healthy gay men in Los Angeles, Calif. Though they...

China-donated COVID-19 vaccines are unloaded from a military transport plane in Dhaka, Bangladesh on May 12, 2021.

How COVID-19 Vaccination Became a Climate Metaphor

A version of this story first appeared in the Climate is Everything newslet...

A version of this story first appeared in the Climate is Everything newsletter. If you’d like sign up to receive this free once-a-week email, click here. For years, climate policy experts have watched as the...

People wait after receiving a dose of Chinese-made Vero Cell COVID-19 vaccine in Kathmandu on June 8, 2021.

My Home Country Has an Excellent Vaccination Track Record. What It Doesn't Have Is Vaccines

Every morning I sit at the breakfast table with my mother. She moved to New...

Every morning I sit at the breakfast table with my mother. She moved to New York about five years ago and having had her so close to me makes New York feel even more like...

A doctor performs a COVID-19 test at the Clínica de La Raza testing site in Oakland, Calif., on April 29, 2021.

Almost 25% of COVID-19 Patients Develop Long-Lasting Symptoms, According to a New Report

A year and a half into the pandemic, the condition known as Long COVID cont...

A year and a half into the pandemic, the condition known as Long COVID continues to stump doctors. A significant number of patients develop long-term symptoms after catching COVID-19, but it hasn’t been clear why...