Push for COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver isn’t a panacea: but it could nudge companies to share: shutterstock A new proposal, this time from the US, on how to open up access to vaccines against COVID-19 by relaxing patent rights, has added to an already complex and fraught debate between the World Trade Organisation’s 164 members. …
Models aren’t a panacea for saving the environment: hard lessons from REDD+: REDD+ goals suffer at the hands of other development aims Wikimedia Commons International conservation is known for its pursuit of global, ‘win-win’ solutions that seek to simultaneously address multiple environmental and social issues. But few proposed solutions have offered as much hope, and …
Antibody tests aren’t a COVID-19 panacea. But they’re a useful additional tool: MSF nurse, Bhelekazi Mdlalose, performs a swab test for coronavirus on a health worker in Johannesburg. As the COVID-19 pandemic escalates, South Africa is struggling to keep up with the demand for testing. This has pushed laboratory professionals and clinicians to consider using …