Falling demand causes glut of unused COVID vaccines in India
India has long been called the world’s pharmacy as the largest producer of generic drugs as well as vaccines on the globe. A lot of that capacity was repurposed and increased to produce COVID vaccines, intended particularly for low-income countries.…
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Grappling with grief as U.S. COVID deaths surpass 1 million
It’s impossible to fully convey the staggering toll of COVID-19, with the number of deaths in the U.S. from the virus equal to losing the entire populations of Boston and Pittsburgh. But numbers describe just one part of this and…
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Why the fight against COVID appears to have stalled in the U.S.
The CDC on Monday formally confirmed today that COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have surpassed 1 million. That’s roughly the American death toll in the Civil War and World War II combined. It’s the highest reported death toll of any…
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Twitter feed memorializes Americans who have died during the pandemic
Each day the Twitter thread “Faces of COVID” posts the names, images and a short remembrance of Americans who have died from COVID-19. The project was started by Boston-based communications consultant Alex Bernstein, who has posted more than 7,000 remembrances…
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Remembering some of the 1 million Americans lost to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
With the U.S. marking the tragic milestone of 1 million lives lost from COVID-19, we wanted to pause to acknowledge this immense, collective loss and remember just some of the Americans who have perished from the virus since the pandemic…
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Americans reflect on hardship and loss from the pandemic
As we approach the tragic milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. we wanted to bring you reflections from some of the people we’ve met over the past two years of this pandemic. A paramedic, a nurse,…
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Dr. Fauci on the state of the pandemic as the U.S. approaches 1 million COVID-19 deaths
President Biden on Thursday marked the U.S. nearing one million lives lost due to the pandemic and called on Congress to pass funding for more COVID relief. The pandemic has claimed more than 6 million lives worldwide, though WHO estimates…
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How misinformation and the partisan divide drove a surge in U.S. COVID deaths
As the death toll from the coronavirus nears 1 million Americans, we’ve been exploring why the u.S. Suffered such a terrible loss, especially when compared to other nations similar to us. While there are many reasons for this, one of…
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