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New York Times: Common Drug Reduces Coronavirus Deaths, Scientists Report “In an unexpected sign of hope amid the expanding pandemic, scientists at the University of Oxford said on Tuesday that an inexpensive and commonly available drug reduced deaths in patients with severe Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. If…

Axios: Germany to invest €300 million in biotech firm developing coronavirus vaccine (Primack, 6/16). Financial Times: The long road to a Covid-19 vaccine (Ahuja, 6/17). Financial Times: Sanofi to build vaccine plant and research centre in France (Abboud, 6/16). Los Angeles Times: China aims to ‘lead the world’ by winning…

HuffPost: Trump Claims COVID-19 Will Go Away And That An AIDS Vaccine Exists. It Doesn’t. “President Donald Trump went off-topic during an address outside the White House on police reform Tuesday, declaring that the coronavirus pandemic will go away without a vaccine and that scientists have ‘come up with the…

BMJ Opinion: Covid-19: Male disadvantage highlights the importance of sex-disaggregated data Katherine Ripullone, academic with the George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford and Cambridge University Hospitals, NHS East of England, Cambridge, and colleagues (6/17). Center for Global Development: What Can Policymakers Learn about COVID-19 from Looking…

AFRICA AP: Zimbabwe’s sex workers on streets despite virus restrictions (Mutsaka, 6/17). Reuters: Around 9% of Guinea-Bissau health workers have been infected with COVID-19 (Dabo et al., 6/16). U.N. News: FROM THE FIELD: COVID-19 just the latest crisis facing Somalia (6/16). Washington Post: Egypt thought it dodged the worst of…

Washington Post: Trump administration nominates American to head Inter-American Development Bank, breaking with tradition “The Trump administration said Tuesday it will nominate Mauricio Claver-Carone, the current head of Western Hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council, as president of the Inter-American Development Bank, breaking an unwritten agreement since the bank’s…

Devex: ‘Optimized for the underserved’: A new diagnostic test built for low-income settings (Cheney, 6/17). Devex: Can business step up on SDGs post COVID-19? (Saldinger, 6/17). Homeland Preparedness News: Bavarian Nordic to increase bulk manufacturing of Ebola vaccines for Janssen (Galford, 6/16). Homeland Preparedness News: IAEA launches new initiative to…

BMJ: Routine vaccination during covid-19 pandemic response Sonia Saxena, professor of primary care at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at the Imperial College London; Helen Skirrow, public health medicine specialist registrar at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at the Imperial College London; and Helen…

Brookings Institution’s “Future Development”: AI: The complex solution to simplify health care Drew Arenth, chief business officer at macro-eyes (6/16). Brookings Institution’s “Future Development”: Inequality, the SDGs, and the human rights movement in the U.S. and around the world Sarah Mendelson, distinguished service professor of public policy and head of…

KFF: COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker — Updated as of June 17, 2020 Data on country government actions in response to COVID-19 are included in the tracker (6/17). Additional KFF COVID-19 resources on the global situation, as well as those focused on the response and impact within the U.S., are available here.…