June 12, 2020

Health authorities' advice to demonstrators has shifted from 'stay home to stop the spread' to tips on how to protest more safely during a pandemic.

Sixty years ago, a monstrous hepatitis experiment was performed on mentally disabled children at Willowbrook State School that raises serious ethical questions about vaccine challenge trials for Covid-19.

Researchers fear that breakthroughs from abroad will be too slow or inequitably shared to benefit the global south.

Noha Aboelata, the head of a community health centre in Oakland, California, tailors testing to suit communities of colour.

The nation still sees more than 20,000 new cases on average a day, a number that's barely budged for weeks. Forecasters say we're looking at tens of thousands more deaths this summer.

The governor of Amazonas, Colombia, says it was impossible to cut the area off from Brazil, even as the virus spiked. Now the Colombian border town of Leticia is a coronavirus hot spot.

This is a lightly edited version of remarks Don Kohn delivered at a Hutchins Center event on May 27, “COVID-19 and the financial system: How resilient are the banks? How are they supporting the economy?”

For months, the world has sat on edge while the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts life and takes lives, with no end in sight. In recent months, numerous killings of black Americans prompted passionate, sometimes volatile protests. Those pains are fresh, but the deadly perils of systemic racism, as well as the chronic stress that comes with it, are not.

Indigenous communities in Brazil suffer from the virus on one hand and 'genocidal' interlopers on the other, rights groups say.

A young woman in her 20s was healthy before the coronavirus struck her. After two months on a ventilator and ECMO device, her transplanted lungs are now working.