Nurith Aizenman
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She's had to flee Afghanistan for her life. And she's one of many whose experience offers a window into what the Taliban takeover may hold for the country's women.
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She's one of 110 girls in a boarding program run by the Veerni Institute in India. When lockdowns hit, they were sent home to their villages, where child marriage is rampant.
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The World Health Organization has reported a downturn after 8 weeks of increasing cases. But the good news comes with a large dose of caution.
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Vaccines may not be as effective for those who are immuno-compromised. Protecting them needs to be made a top priority, says researchers — to keep them safe and to slow the emergence of variants.
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Thanks to widespread vaccinations, the U.S. is reopening. Meanwhile, countries without similar access to doses are angry and fearful — amid signs the COVID-19 catastrophe in India could spread.
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African nations had been counting on Serum Institute of India for nearly all their COVID vaccines. Now the company says it won't be sending any more for months. And African officials are scrambling.
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How the chaotic system for distributing the world's vaccine supply is wreaking havoc in places that can least afford it.
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One of the hottest areas of research right now: studies to determine how well current vaccines work against emerging coronavirus "variants of concern."
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The grim news of mass shootings in California has again cast a spotlight on the gun violence death rate in the U.S., which is higher than much of the world.
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For this health expert based in Boston, the effort to get vaccines to his native South Africa was intensely personal.