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New donation pledges won’t fill global COVID-19 vaccine shortfalls. Here’s why

New donation pledges won’t fill global COVID-19 vaccine shortfalls. Here’s why: Boxes containing Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine doses donated to COVAX by the US. Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images Vaccine inequity is the greatest barrier to ending COVID-19 as an international health emergency. As we inch closer to the two-year mark of the pandemic, …

What Elvis Presley’s televised polio vaccination can tell us about the shortfalls of celebrity-endorsed health campaigns

What Elvis Presley’s televised polio vaccination can tell us about the shortfalls of celebrity-endorsed health campaigns: Elvis Presley received a polio vaccination on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956 neftali/Shutterstock.com If you had tuned into the Ed Sullivan Show on October 28 1956, you would have witnessed an unexpected promoter of public health. Just before …