Tag: World Health Organization
As Monkeypox Spreads, U.S. Declares a Health Emergency
Gay rights activists, who have been sharply critical of the administration, have been demanding an emergency declaration for…
W.H.O. Declares Monkeypox Spread a Global Health Emergency
For the second time in two years, the World Health Organization has taken the extraordinary step of declaring…
C.D.C. Dismisses Airborne Transmission of Monkeypox. Some Experts Disagree.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday pushed back against the idea that the…
‘Everybody Should Be Concerned’ About Monkeypox, Biden Warns
President Biden raised the alarm on Sunday about monkeypox, a viral infection fast spreading around the world, and…
What Is Monkeypox?
The rare monkeypox virus, usually confined mostly to Central and West Africa, has spread in unusual ways this…
As Poor Nations Seek Covid Pills, Officials Fear Repeat of AIDS Crisis
The cost to UNICEF of Paxlovid — including Pfizer’s insistence that UNICEF keep how much it pays confidential…
Death Toll During Pandemic Far Exceeds Totals Reported by Countries, W.H.O. Says
Other experts said that India’s refusal to cooperate with the W.H.O. analysis was rooted in the country’s history…
The Drive to Vaccinate the World Against Covid Is Losing Steam
In the middle of last year, the World Health Organization began promoting an ambitious goal, one it said…
India Is Stalling the W.H.O.’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public
An ambitious effort by the World Health Organization to calculate the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic…
BA.2 Omicron Subvariant Driving Most Global Cases, W.H.O. Says
The World Health Organization reported that the highly contagious Omicron subvariant, BA.2, that is helping to drive another…
What Would Covid Being Endemic Mean For Travel?
“Thirty-one percent is the highest it has ever been,” since the company started the tracking survey in March…