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AP: U.K. gears up for huge vaccination plan watched by the world “Shipments of the coronavirus vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech were delivered Sunday in the U.K. in super-cold containers, two days before it goes public in an immunization program that is being closely watched around…

AP: China prepares large-scale rollout of coronavirus vaccines “Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country’s 1.4 billion people. Developers are speeding up final testing, the Chinese…

New York Times: China Peddles Falsehoods to Obscure Origin of Covid Pandemic “…Facing global anger over their initial mishandling of the outbreak, the Chinese authorities are now trying to rewrite the narrative of the pandemic by pushing theories that the virus originated outside China. In recent days, Chinese officials have…

AP: Biden picks Calif. AG Becerra to lead HHS, pandemic response “President-elect Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his administration’s coronavirus response. Separately, Biden picked a Harvard infectious…

AP: Health officials warn Americans not to let their guard down “With a COVID-19 vaccine perhaps just days away in the U.S., most of California headed into another lockdown Sunday because of the surging outbreak and top health officials warned Americans that this is no time to let their guard…

NBC News: Trump admin debates labeling Yemen’s Houthis terrorists, aid groups warn thousands face famine “Trump administration officials are locked in an internal debate about whether to label Houthi rebels in Yemen as a terrorist organization, as aid groups and United Nations officials warn that the move could trigger a…

STAT: Women’s perspectives and voices need more inclusion in Covid-19 media coverage Nandini Oomman, global health and development specialist and chief executive officer of the Women’s Storytelling Salon; Kathryn Conn, nurse, global health specialist, and chief operating officer of the Women’s Storytelling Salon; and Elizabeth O’Connell, global health strategic partnerships…

The Hill: Personal freedoms should not trump public health James Alwine, virologist and fellow of the American Academy for Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Felicia Goodrum Sterling, 2018 Public Voices fellow of the OpEd Project, professor, and virologist (12/5). The Hill: The real threat…

Think Global Health: COVID-19: A Wake-Up Call to Africa for Investing in Responsive and Resilient Health-Care Systems Tom Achoki, co-founder of Mass Sciences and the Africa Institute for Health Policy Foundation (11/30). Think Global Health: An Aging World Requires More Support for Health Systems Joseph L. Dieleman, associate professor at…

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Missing Perspectives: How women are left out of the news Susan Byrnes, chief communications officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Luba Kassova, co-founder and director at AKAS (12/2). Poynter: The ‘missing perspectives of women in news’ is alarming and grim, a new…