Jason Beaubien
Stories
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World
What U.S. Vaccine Donations Mean For Sierra Leone And Africa
The U.S. has announced it will distribute 500 million Pfizer vaccines to scores of nations. How that will be done is not yet entirely clear.
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Burkina Faso Will Observe 3 Days Of Mourning After Weekend Massacre
A massacre in the West African nation of Burkina Faso has left at least 130 people dead. It was the country's deadliest attack in years.
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Health
AstraZeneca's Rocky Rollout: The Woes Of The 'Vaccine For The World'
Oxford-AstraZeneca promised its COVID-19 vaccine would be effective, cheap and available worldwide. Five months after its launch, the path forward has been anything but smooth.
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Health
What Is This COVAX Program That The U.S. Is Pouring Millions Of Vaccines Into?
President Biden said the U.S. is distributing them not to curry favor with allies, but to end the pandemic everywhere. And he's doing it through COVAX.
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Health
One Of The World's Poorest Countries Has One Of The World's Lowest COVID Death Rates
As of the end of April, only 254 deaths were attributed to COVID in Haiti over the course of the entire pandemic. Why has the death rate been so low?
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Health
In Many Parts Of The World, Pandemic Conditions Remain Dire
Though optimism grows in the U.S. as more and more people get vaccinated, the global picture is far from rosy. Several countries are struggling, and things continue to look grim.
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Health
What Does Vaccine Inequality Look Like? See Chart
Namibia's president says disparate global rates of vaccination represent "COVID apartheid." When you compare percent of people vaccinated in the most populous countries, you can understand his ire.
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Science
European Union Regulator Says Benefits Outweigh Risks Of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine
The European Medicines Agency says there is a possible link between the J&J vaccine and rare blood clotting. It says a warning should be added to the label, but says benefits outweigh the risks.
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Health
Eco-Activist Greta Thunberg Has A New Issue: The Moral Threat of Vaccine Inequality
The 18-year-old gave her point of view at a World Health Organization press conference, saying it's "unethical" to vaccinate young people in wealthy countries ahead of health workers in poor places.
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National
The Ramifications Of The Johnson & Johnson Vaccination Halt Are Global
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision to temporarily halt the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is having ramifications globally.