Remembering the pandemic...
President Joe Biden’s administration has officially ended the national health emergency in the United States, allowing the remaining pandemic restrictions to expire on May 11. Other countries have...
What will it take to prevent future pandemics?
Although Covid-19 restrictions are rapidly fading around the world, we are still reeling from the impact of the past three years. More than 6.8 million deaths from Covid-19 have been officially...
A path out of the pandemic
We have made extraordinary progress in our fight against the Covid-19 pandemic since the dark days of 2020. Yet, in many ways, we are back to square one. Public-health precautions are virtually...
Breathing life back into Covid prevention
After three long years, the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down. Unfortunately, public resistance and fatigue toward Covid-19 interventions and restrictions are at an all-time high. Even China,...
Fixing public-health data problem
With Covid-19 still an ever-present threat and monkeypox cases rising alongside existing chronic health epidemics, building strong, responsive public health systems has never been more important. But...
The virus is still winning
Once again, Covid-19 is rampaging unchecked through the US population, because there are no longer any public-health measures in place to protect adequately against infection.Given that infection by...
Could the Covid-19 virus evade the vaccines?
It is now well known that Sars-CoV-2 can mutate to evade vaccine protection against infection. The Omicron variants – BA.1, B1.1, and BA.2 – can infect those who were previously infected by other...
Reassessing strategies to protect us from new variants!
As yet another new Sars-CoV-2 variant emerges and begins to spread — one with a worryingly large set of mutations that may make the virus more capable of evading our immune defences — we are all...