Public health officials and religious conservatives fought over church closures. Data now shows that those who attended worship more frequently in the pandemic reported higher rates of the virus.
Members of the public were more overconfident and less accurate in predicting the likely number of infections and deaths, but both groups missed the mark.
A vaccination centre in Mumbai, closed due to lack of supplies in late April.
Divyakant Solanki/EPA
The first few months of 2020 were critical to the World Health Organization’s response to COVID-19. But the latest report into what happened wasn’t all damning.
A healthcare worker performs a nasal swab as he tests a woman for COVID-19 in Bamako, Mali.
Annie Risemberg/AFP via Getty Images
Deficient leptin levels caused by malnutrition might protect against severe COVID-19 and related death. This could be another reason for the lower than expected COVID-19 deaths in Africa.
Vanquishing the enemy? People stand in a quick moving line up at a mass vaccination centre during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mississauga, Ont., on May 10, 2021.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Public officials are telling us simultaneously to move swiftly on vaccination and also to make thoughtful, reasoned choices about which vaccine we get. These messages are confusing and frustrating.
The humanitarian disaster in India has been made worse by a lack of accountability at the highest level in government.
The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have widened the partisan divide between Democrats and Republicans on health care.
John M. Lund Photography/Getty Images
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand