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Covid vaccine figures lay bare global inequality as global target missed Only one in seven people in low-income countries are fully vaccinated with poorest pushed to the ‘back of the queue’ the Guardian

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Gawande warns USAID COVID response quickly running out of money The USAID global coronavirus response will run out of money in the coming weeks without new funding from Congress, the agency’s Assistant Administrator for Global Health Atul Gawande warned on Tues… colinmeyn The Hill

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Gawande said funding for the task force ran out last month, and the agency has been lobbying lawmakers since December to re-up the financing at a minimum of $5 billion. So far, however, Congress has delivered none...

Monkeypox patients should not be left to suffer when an FDA-approved drug could help The federal government's development of tecovirimat should be lauded as forward thinking for investing in pandemic preparedness. But its failure to use it to control the monkeypox outbreak must change. Patrick Skerrett STAT

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