Does my kid have COVID‑19 or just a cold? A pediatric nurse explains how to tell – and why it matters
Keeping children home from school if they have COVID-19 protects family and school community members at high risk of serious illness.
Keeping children home from school if they have COVID-19 protects family and school community members at high risk of serious illness.
Local participation and ownership of the response to COVID-19 is the only sustainable option.
When the UK’s red list is considered at a more granular level, the difficulties become immediately apparent.
Slums are a challenge for controlling the pandemic. Strengthening their fragile healthcare provision would help mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and future pandemics.
When politicians and others speak about herd immunity, unfortunately, they are under the misconception that the current tools that we’ve got are adequate to eliminate the virus.
There are a lot of opportunities in applying geospatial information system to aid COVID-19 response and other outbreaks.
Social protection measures and food distribution targeting adolescents in informal settlements are urgently needed.
The pandemic will not end for anyone, anywhere until it is controlled in every country. Tanzania’s approach will make it that much harder for normality to return.
If the world is single-minded and focuses purely on combating one pandemic, forgetting others, the effects of other morbidity and mortality on healthcare systems will be seen for a long time to come.
Due to early logistical planning, Rwanda had the capacity to store 5 million doses before the vaccines arrived.