Al Jazeera: ‘Humanity waging war on nature’: U.N. chief (9/30).

AP: Auditor general: Kenya to lose millions in COVID-19 response (Odula, 9/30).

The Atlantic: This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic (Tufekci, 9/30).

Devex: Partnering for health: Advancing resilient health systems (10/1).

Devex: Q&A: The need for flexibility and innovation in TB care — now more than ever (10/1).

Devex: Why we need to invest in health care workers now (Donback, 9/30).

The Hill: Ex-FDA employees express worries to Congress over politicization of vaccines (Hellmann, 9/30).

The Hill: Fauci calls for racial and ethnic diversity in coronavirus vaccine trials (Bernal, 9/30).

New York Times: Huge Study of Coronavirus Cases in India Offers Some Surprises to Scientists (Mandavilli, 9/30).

SciDev.Net: Malaria: Africa’s nagging health burden (Amutabi, 9/30).

Scientific American: Protecting against COVID’s Aerosol Threat (Barber, 10/1).

Washington Post: The secret to Australia’s success in beating the coronavirus? Being an island helps. (Patrick, 10/1).