Dealing with pandemics cannot rest merely on mitigation. It must focus on deep prevention and synchronization with other policy objectives such as halting global warming. It must address all sources and vectors of zoonoses: legal trade in wildlife, poaching and wildlife trafficking, and habitat destruction.
MoreNonetheless, an analysis of how the fiscal package would affect the overall economy is instructive, although subject to a great deal of uncertainty. In all, with the $1.9 trillion package, we project that cumulative real GDP between 2020 and 2023 would end up close to its pre-pandemic projection; over the next two years households and
MoreAs they rush to vaccinate millions of Americans, health officials are struggling to collect critically important information — such as race, ethnicity and occupation — of every person they jab.
MoreFlorida, Colorado and several New England states are moving ahead with efforts to import prescription drugs from Canada, a politically popular strategy greenlighted last year by President Donald Trump.
MoreIn 2020, COVID-19 became the third leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by cancer and heart disease.
MoreThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Credo Bank JSC (Credo) signed a $4 million loan to support agricultural micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), low-income farm households, women-owned MSMEs, and agri-tourism in Georgia.
MoreFour million uninsured people could get an ACA bronze plan with no premium payment and 4.9 million others could get subsidies to offset the cost of such a plan if the Biden Administration were to re-open ACA marketplace enrollment, a KFF analysis finds.
MoreDue to the evolving nature of the pandemic, many countries are now reintroducing stricter travel restrictions.
MoreA federal jury has convicted a prison inmate of attacking a Bureau of Prisons employee, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
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