The huge push for a vaccine based on messenger RNA (mRNA) against Covid-19 is beginning to bear fruit. As a result, we can expect many more advances, one or several Nobel prizes, and possibly, a whole revolution in the treatment of multiple infectious …
Dr. Vanessa Kerry, cofounder and CEO of Seed Global Health, explains why the U. S. should take a rights-based approached to healthcare as a pillar of society on the anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous “Four Freedoms” speech.
Verifying who is vaccinated and who is not should mean creating apps, secure and reliable databases, scannable codes, authenticated and unbreakable record keeping, and above all, communication between different systems at different levels and across d…
Two mechanisms will be central in convincing people to take the Covid vaccine: exposing its benefits at the individual and collective levels, and building the support of a majority opinion.
At the 2020 Forbes Healthcare Summit, Albert Bourla is already looking beyond his company’s vaccine success and into a post-pandemic world.
Despite warnings, bookings for the festive season are booming. But family celebrations are one of the most effective ways to spread the virus: we abandon all cautions, forget social distancing, and can’t keep a mask on when eating or drinking. Do not r…
Even if a successful vaccine becomes available, we must resist the temptation to simply slide back to the same normality that got us into so much trouble in the first place. It would be a historical mistake to do so.
Dr. Joshua Liao explains why pinning a full return to normalcy solely on vaccines could alter our risk perceptions, encourage unsafe behaviors, and ultimately prolong suffering from the pandemic.
It won’t be long before technology will have come up with low-cost, easy-to-use and reliable test kits that we could use, for example, when friends or family visit our homes, when we attend an event. That will give us a greater sense of normality and (…
Dr. Pooja Yerramilli, Dr. Folasade P. May and Dr. Vanessa Bradford Kerry discuss the need for long-term political leadership and investment in three critical areas: the social determinants of health, public health infrastructure, and access to health s…
