Vaccine passports are being dubbed the solution to reopen economies and get back to some form of reality. The principle is straightforward: those who’ve had a vaccine would be able […]
Global health
Covid-19 vaccine passports and vaccine hesitancy: freedom or control?
Recent debates around “vaccine passports,” or formal/mandatory certification of vaccination, point towards a potential widening societal divide between those who are vaccinated and those who are not. Those with certification […]
Covid-19 vaccine passports will harm sustainable development
Vaccine passports create a structural barrier to sustainable development, benefiting only the few at the expense of so many, say these authors […]
Medicine under fire in Myanmar—now is the time for solidarity
On the first of February this year, Myanmar’s slow creep towards democracy came to a halt. The brittle scaffold of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s government was brushed aside. Refusing […]
Brazil, a country collapsing during the covid-19 pandemic
Brazil was the first Latin American country with covid-19 cases on 26 February 2020. At that time, reports from China, Italy, and other Asian and European countries were already abundant […]
Covid-19 has shown we can end the world’s biggest infectious disease killer, TB, once and for all
This pandemic has shown the devastating results of the world’s failure to invest in health: hospitals were overwhelmed, existing inequities were amplified, and people already living with preventable diseases, such […]
What matters most now is to make sure that we don’t experience another devastating covid-19 wave
At the start of the year, Portugal was experiencing a very high rate of covid-19, three authors reflect on what lessons need to be learnt to prevent another wave […]
Scaling up covid-19 vaccine production: What are the problems and implications?
Increasing production of vaccines for covid-19 presents huge potential problems because of its unprecedented scale. The complex supply chain for vaccines is vulnerable to shortages of key components as well […]
Covid-19: A call for global vaccine equity
The covid-19 pandemic will not be over for us until it is over for everyone […]
Ara Darzi: we must come to the support of our medical colleagues in Myanmar
Doctors have become the latest targets in the brutal crackdown by the army and police in Myanmar, as leaders of the military junta seek to silence countrywide protests against the […]