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A medical worker in a protective suit collects a swab sample from a resident at a makeshift nucleic acid testing site amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, China April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

Emerging from the COVID Pandemic, Again

For much of the world, 2022 marked the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. The shift was palpable after several failed re-opening attempts in many countries. The arrival of the Omicron…

07 December 2022

Mass COVID-19 testing at a housing complex, Beijing, January 24, 2022. Tingshu Wang / Reuters

China’s Immunity Gap

In mid-November 2021, around the time the Omicron variant was first discovered in South Africa, the Chinese government all but declared victory over COVID-19. For more than 20 months, the country’s…

Yanzhong Huang 29 January 2022

Travelers walk near an electronic flight notice board displaying canceled flights at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on Nov. 27, after several countries banned flights from South Africa following the discovery of the COVID-19 omicron variant. Phill Magakoe/AFP/Getty Images via TNS

Omicron is Already in the US. Discriminatory Travel Bans for Southern Africa Need to End

While the world’s scientists are scrambling to unravel the inner workings of the omicron variant, not enough people are talking about the elephant in the room: the southern Africa travel ban that…

April L. Raphiou 16 December 2021

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