World Health Organization Declares COVID-19 a ‘Pandemic.’ Here’s What That Means

The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 declared COVID-19 a pandemic, pointing to the over 118,000 cases of the coronavirus illness in over 110 countries and territories around the world and ...
The Heritage Foundation

WHO Pandemic Treaty Remains Fatally Flawed

Despite multiple rounds of negotiations, the World Health Organization’s latest pandemic-treaty draft maintains provisions that should lead the Biden Administration to oppose adoption at the May 2024 ...
The Conversation

The pandemic’s hidden toll: millions of chronic conditions left undiagnosed

Mark Russell receives research funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). When COVID hit, healthcare systems around the world were turned upside down. Hospitals cleared ...
Foreign Affairs

The World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic

Less than five years after the outbreak of COVID-19, the world remains vulnerable to another pandemic. Over the past five months, a mutated strain of the H5N1 influenza virus detected in dairy cattle ...
The New York Times

What if There Was Never a Pandemic Again?

Dr. Pannu is a resident physician at the Stanford School of Medicine and a fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Mr. Swett is an adviser to Open Philanthropy on biosecurity and ...
Reason

Should We Blame Fauci for the COVID Pandemic?

In June 2024, Anthony Fauci appeared before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic for a contentious confrontation with congressional Republicans. But it opened on what might have ...
Business Wire

FICO Data Uncovers Positive Impact Pandemic Had on UK Consumers’ Payments

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global analytic software leader FICO’s analysis of UK credit card payments data from the past six years has revealed that consumers developed healthier credit card payment ...