The health emergencies you didn’t hear about in 2020

Published on November 16, 2020

This year WHO responded to more than 60 emergencies, including major outbreaks of ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo, chikungunya in Chad, yellow fever in Gabon and Togo, measles in Mexico, flooding in Sudan, storms in the Philippines and Viet Nam, and much more. WHO

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Interview - What it would take to get super-cold COVID-19 vaccine to West Africa

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The pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its partner BioNTech SE said on Monday that initial trials showed their experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective. But the vaccine must be kept at temperatures of minus 70 degrees Celsius (-94 F) or below - colder than the North Pole.The super-cold storage temperature required for the new vaccine will make it near impossible to deliver in rural

EARLY RELEASE: Implementation of a Pooled Surveillance Testing Program for Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections on a College Campus - Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, August 2-October 11, 2020

November 17, 2020
This report describes pooled SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction testing student conducted at Duke University in fall 2020.