Mass protests which started against vaccination in Canada under the name of “freedom convoy” can have consequences well within the borders of America as well. The bloodline of such protests is conspiracy theorists like the ones of QAnon, which try to exploit the masses just to further their agenda and create unrest in societies that … Read more
The Omicron variant has been devastating in America, with daily cases reaching up to one million per day. But the very nature of the strain provides America with renewed hopes to increase its global political clout using vaccine diplomacy. Vaccines produced by China and Russia are becoming ineffective against the Omicron strain, thus paving the … Read more
Since the outbreak of the omicron variant, global inequity has been sparked once again. The COVID vaccine inequity, coupled with vaccine nationalism, allowed the new variant to gain ground, which encouraged global leaders to put unfair blame on countries like South Africa, which successfully managed to detect the new variant. But at a time when … Read more
The state of Florida is in the grip of COVID-19, and Governor Ron DeSantis is worsening the crisis. As the state faces a hospitalization crisis, the infection rate continues to increase with every passing day. This has resulted in the popularity dip of Ron DeSantis as well, as the latest data shows a fourteen percent … Read more
President Donald Trump’s “America First” strategy was perceived as paranoia by Democrats during his tenure. In fact, Democrats built their election campaign against his nationalist agenda of America first and its associated slogan, “Make America Great Again.” However, now President Biden’s America First policy is telling the same story in two policy measures, at … Read more
Since the arrival of the Coronavirus vaccine, while the developed countries showed positive outcomes, the poorer countries are still struggling with the deadly pandemic. Among the poor countries, African countries, along with some Asian nations, have a hard time controlling the spread of infection. This is translating into spiking numbers in the African nations. Despite … Read more
Amid the rising vaccine hesitancy in Americans despite the availability of concrete data in favor of the vaccination, the vaccine’s full approval can bring skeptics on board to a much greater extent. In the United States, two coronavirus vaccine manufacturers that were approved for emergency use have applied to the Food and Drug Administration for … Read more
Just when businesses across the United States have started enforcing mandatory vaccination, the debate about the vaccine mandate has kicked off, as people started questioning the legality of this mandate. There has been a worrying plateau in the coverage of COVID-19 in the U.S. In addition to risk mitigation techniques such as masking and distancing, … Read more
As the world scumbled to the Delta variant of the coronavirus, a new variant named Epsilon has been detected in the South Asian country of Pakistan, further prolonging the delay getting over COVID. This makes vaccines even more important in times when governments were already trying to bring more people to the vaccination centers. The … Read more
The Democrats are back to their old habit of letting propaganda happen without tackling them. As vaccine disinformation swells, resulting in dwindling vaccination rates, the Biden administration is under fire because they failed to counter the narrative at times when vaccine disinformation was inevitable and pervasive. Facebook became an easy target for President Biden, who … Read more
The COVID-19 outbreak turned the United States into a tale of “two Americas.” While the nation has been able to defeat the coronavirus in areas with high vaccination rates, those with low vaccination rates, particularly the Red States, continue to see cases and deaths. As the pandemic is turning into the “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” … Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown a deep social structural divide, not only between rich and poor countries but also within the countries themselves. The only recipe to get rid of the disease, the vaccines, are emerging as a scarce resource, as poor countries strive to get their hands on them with little success. This is … Read more
Despite continuous efforts to pull people to the vaccination centers by projects like vaccine lottery and vaccine passports, a multitude of people are not ready to get vaccinated. As the Delta variant of COVID-19, which originated in Mumbai, India, invades the United States, the situation is unfolding as the “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” The top health … Read more
The need to curtail the coronavirus has reached the power corridors, where the urgency is to take extraordinary measures now by putting profit ambitions aside. One such measure is the COVID vaccine patent waiver so that the most disadvantaged population of the world can be inoculated at a rapid pace. As the United States uplifts … Read more
The innovative concepts to get people vaccinated are in full flow as the COVID-19 vaccine lottery system has persuaded people to inoculate themselves against the pandemic. The initiatives of New York, Ohio, and Maryland are prominent in this regard, the states which are pursuing vaccine lottery initiatives in the United States. The aim is to … Read more
Amid the rising pandemic, the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access, popularly known as COVAX, was formed as an avenue to help the lower and middle-income countries for equitable access to the coronavirus vaccine. This initiative, led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and co-sponsored by the European Commission and France, aimed to develop two billion doses … Read more
