The real question is not whether therapeutic gene editing is possible, but rather — do we want it and are we ready for it?
How the pandemic will play out in the next few years will depend on vaccines — their availability, coverage and duration of protection.
The UK has suffered enormously over the past year. Most visibly, it has one of the highest rates of COVID deaths per million people, and has suffered the most economically among its peers.
This “niche diplomacy” is expected to be one of the key guiding principles of Emirati foreign policy in 2021.
Can the pandemic become a means to prepare us to deal more effectively with a number of other seismic shifts which are either already underway or imminently forthcoming?
For 2021, governments in Africa will focus on improving their revenue and ending the economic recession, way more than it will focus on managing the pandemic.
For Armenia — just like most countries that went through a second wave — it is essential at least to stabilise the situation as soon as possible in order to prevent a new potential wave.
Unfortunately, policy advancements in mental health services have been left wanting due to the overwhelming public health burden of a raging pandemic.
India needs to enhance its programme effectiveness and reach. It calls for proactive measures and scaling up of innovations required to address malnutrition.
David Petraeus is a retired United States Army general. ...
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