William A. Haseltine, Contributor

Covid-19’s economic devastation stripped nations of their sustainable growth financing. The world’s economic powers must step in to fill the gaps.

Necessary precautions to slow the spread of the coronavirus such as pausing vaccination campaigns, are threatening to overturn decades of progress in addressing both infectious and chronic diseases that have improved the health of millions of people gl…

If Covid-19 is a raging forest fire, and a vaccine the firefighter dispatched to quell it, tried-and-true prevention measures are how we protect ourselves until the trucks come rolling in.

Sadly, the approval of a vaccine does not mark the beginning of the end of the pandemic—not if we don’t supplement it with public health measures. First on the list? Rapid testing.

In a recent study of cancer trends among adolescents and young adults in the US, researchers reported a stunning thirty percent increase in cancer diagnoses among individuals fifteen to thirty-nine years old between 1973 and 2015.

The Lancet Countdown report shows that extreme heat and infectious disease are taking their toll. It also says that Covid-19 will contextualize our response to climate change for many years to come.

The British government’s decision to forego a more rigorous approval process for Covid-19 vaccines has received criticism from EU regulators—and rightly so.

The CDC left quarantine decisions to the isolated individual’s preference, which will lead to unnecessary transmission and a longer pandemic.

From frozen food to contaminated freight, some ways of spreading Covid-19 go unnoticed in countries where disease surveillance is crippled by a constant influx of new cases. That doesn’t mean they’re inconsequential.