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Shipping Containers Turned Labs: BioNTech’s New Initiative to Vaccinate Africa

By Dimitri Rhodes and Mariana Gomes BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX, “BioNTech”) has just announced a new not-for-profit initiative to produce Covid vaccines in Africa. This project, set to launch in June of 2022, will port the vaccine manufacturing process out of factories, and into containers.  In a press conference held on the 16th of February, BioNTech gathered government, corporate, and NGO leaders to unveil their … Continue reading Shipping Containers Turned Labs: BioNTech’s New Initiative to Vaccinate Africa

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Reporting COVID numbers by vaccination status “now inappropriate” says Scotland

By Maya Auer and Louis Brady The number of COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations by vaccination status will no longer be published on a weekly basis in Scotland, Public Health Scotland (PHS) has declared. The body responsible for publishing COVID-19 data for Scotland revealed in their latest report that they will no longer publish weekly comparisons between COVID-19 rates within the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. … Continue reading Reporting COVID numbers by vaccination status “now inappropriate” says Scotland

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The Exploitation of Pet Bears in Russia

Emily Zaal and Shreeya Khanna investigate two prominent Russian social media accounts that exploit their pet bears in the name of commercial profit. “Russia has a long history of exploiting bears,” writes the NZ Herald in an article on animal cruelty. In our investigation, we found two examples of this, namely the popular bear accounts of Tom and Stepan. It’s 1993, and according to Svetlana … Continue reading The Exploitation of Pet Bears in Russia

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The Green Tide Washes Over: A year of free, legal abortion in Argentina

By Stéphanie Hamel & Juan Manuel Sierra In December 2020, Argentina made history by legalizing free voluntary abortion. The law has led to significant changes and helped remove the stigma around existing practices for both patients and doctors, yet there are still many obstacles to a universal access to reproductive health. 9to5’s Stéphanie Hamel and Juan Sierra investigate the impacts of the law a year … Continue reading The Green Tide Washes Over: A year of free, legal abortion in Argentina

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‘You think they care?’ Travelling with a forged COVID test certificate

By Louis Brady, Yoana Petrova & Nicola Quaedvlieg It’s June 2021. Best friends Zoey* and Uma* are waiting at the gate to board their flight from Florence, Italy to Amsterdam Schiphol. They are nervous. They get to the front of the queue, where a staff member from the airline asks to see Uma’s PCR test certificate, which was required when entering the Netherlands at the … Continue reading ‘You think they care?’ Travelling with a forged COVID test certificate

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