Moderna has donated 2.7 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to Mexico, to help fight the omicron surge. This week, Mexico passed 300,000 test-confirmed* deaths due to COVID-19, which accounts for over 7 percent of their entire population. (For comparison, the 864,000 deaths in the United States amount to 1.4 percent of the population. Less […]
A large donation of vaccines will soon be shipped out to Peru: 2 million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine are the first major donation of President Biden’s pledge to donate 80 million vaccine doses to countries in need. According to a White House official, the first of 2 million doses will leave American ports on […]
The tennis star has teamed up with Bella Canvas, Scholastic, and the National School Board Association.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the flea-spread typhus was spread so heavily in prisons that it was called jail fever. It spread unavoidably between inmates because they were crowded in conditions that didn’t allow them to take care of their own hygiene. And while endemic typhus is no longer a jailhouse plague, inmates are […]
In 2015 on the birthday of their daughter, pediatrician Priscilla Chan and her husband, Mark Zuckerberg, set up the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub to fight disease worldwide. In the past 5 years, most of their activities have been towards securing funding beyond the $1 billion in yearly funds coming from Facebook […]