Hospitals across the country are filling up and reaching their full capacities yet again. An Alabama man named Ray DeMonia was turned away from 43 hospitals due to lack of capacity and ultimately died in an ICU 200 miles away from his home. After his death, his family pleaded for people to get vaccinated to […]
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Vaccine Disparities: The Future of Foreign Policy?
As the end of Covid-19 slowly dawns, and with it the advent of a vaccine, a troubling trend is on the rise. Faced with worldwide lockdowns that had a crippling effect on the global economy, public health, and the world at large, scientists from all over rushed to create a vaccine that would finally put […]
Everything You Need to Know About the COVID Vaccine: Part 2
It’s over in a second. A quick prick and then you’re done. You don’t feel any different in the moment, but that tiny shot has such far-reaching implications. It symbolizes the pandemic slowly grinding to a halt. For me, getting vaccinated was like finally being able to breathe fresh air after a year. It gave […]
Coronavirus Vaccine Development: Urgency and Dilemma
The space of COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutic development is crowded in 2020. As these companies race to the finish line of research and development, the problem of drug discovery and distribution has been politicized. This has subjected some companies to tighter development deadlines due to political pressure while others find their work prematurely disclosed and […]
Everything You Need To Know About The COVID-19 Vaccine
It was the kind of statement that made you pause and look at the person wondering, “What on earth would prompt them to say something like that?” Unfortunately, this was a fairly regular occurrence. As someone who began every morning searching for the phrase “coronavirus vaccine” and reading the latest news articles, I became a […]
How an Indian Biotech Company Shot Ahead on the Zika Vaccine Long Before The Rest of the World
Open any news website and you’ll come face-to-face with heartbroken Brazilian parents cradling a doleful infant with microcephaly, a condition in which people are born with abnormally small heads. Next to that are the statistics: Brazil has a conservative estimate of 500,000 to 1.5 million cases of the Zika virus, which has now spread to […]