This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to Our World in Data, the US first breached the weekly average of 1 million doses a day on January 23. Less than three weeks later, on February 11, the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. he coronavirus has devastated the world and killed about 2.3 million people globally. It has infected more than 100 million others, and new variants threaten another surge in cases even as vaccines…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.S. faces one of the most consequential public health campaigns in history right now: to vaccinate the population against COVID-19 and, especially, to get shots into the arms of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One year ago—February 11, 2020—the Institute’s Health, Medicine and Society program brought together three experts for a panel called “Straight from the Source: Experts Discuss Novel Coronavirus.” The disease that has since…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The approval of various COVID-19 vaccines seems like a game changer in the course of the pandemic. The vaccines offer hope that vulnerable populations can be better protected and that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than a third of people nationwide report they are either unlikely or at least hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available, a new study shows. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The UK has now secured 400 million doses of various COVID-19 vaccines, six times its total population. It’s already vaccinated almost 9 million people. But meanwhile just one of the 29 poorest countries in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Within a year of the first reported case of COVID-19, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine became the first fully-tested immunization to be approved for emergency use against the deadly virus. The lightning-speed development and approval…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While COVID-19 has certainly taken centerstage when it comes to global health news over the last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) is now drawing attention to a different health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The study in the journal JAMA Network Open indicates that people who experience psychiatric conditions when they are young are likely to experience excess age-related physical diseases when they are older. Leah…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across our work at the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy (CSP), we often see first-hand how difficult it can be for different scientific disciplines to collaborate. While science has made so much progress in many areas, societal advancement could go…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Trump administration expanded COVID-19 vaccine eligibility recommendations to include anyone over the age of 65 on Tuesday, but experts warn that without strategies to ensure women frontline workers are immunized, progress…