Humanity stands poised at the intersection of one of the most serious disasters in world history. We have failed in our preparation for the anticipated second wave of Covid-19. Efforts to confront the...

Several states are turning away Covid vaccine doses from their federal government allocations, as the daily average of coronavirus vaccine doses administered across the US has fallen below two million...

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Describing the surge of Covid-19 infections and deaths in India as “nothing short of heartbreaking”, Vice-President Kamala Harris said on Friday that India’s welfare is critically im...

The US, which has urged its citizens not to travel to India because of the surge in Covid-19 cases, on Friday encouraged those in the country to book their tickets to return home through currently ava...

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The Narendra Modi government’s ineptitude (or call it complicity with monopolists’ extortions) knows no limits. In the midst of a terrible pandemic when there is a shortage of vaccines, th...

The birthrate declined for the sixth straight year in 2020, the federal government reported on Wednesday, early evidence that the coronavirus pandemic accelerated a trend among American women of delay...

India is reeling under one of the most serious public health challenges in the post-Independence era. The immediate crisis has a strong internal dimension and this fact cannot be overemphasized. One n...

Early in the pandemic, when vaccines for the coronavirus were still just a glimmer on the horizon, the term “herd immunity” came to signify the endgame: the point when enough Americans wou...