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South America Suffers Worst Pandemic Death Tolls Yet

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — In the capital of Colombia, Bogotá, the mayor is warning residents to brace for “the worst two weeks of our lives.”

Uruguay, once lauded as a model for keeping the coronavirus under control, now has one of the highest death rates in the world, while the grim daily tallies of the dead have hit records in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru in recent days.

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Analysis: Vaccine Skepticism is More Than a Lack of Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.

For years, scientists and doctors have treated vaccine skepticism as a knowledge problem. If patients were hesitant to get vaccinated, the thinking went, they simply needed more information.

But as public health officials now work to convince Americans to get Covid-19 vaccines as quickly as possible, new social science research suggests that a set of deeply held beliefs is at the heart of many people’s resistance, complicating efforts to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control.

“The instinct from the medical community was, ‘If only we could educate them,’” said Dr. Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, who studies vaccine skepticism. “It was patronizing and, as it turns out, not true.”

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Online discussion today: Creating Fiscal Space During the Covid-19 Era

 

 

The CSIS Global Health Policy Center invites you to join us for an online event:

 

Creating Fiscal Space
During the Covid-19 Era

 

Thursday, April 29, 2021

2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT
 

 

 
Keynote remarks by

Andy Baukol

Performing the Duties of the Undersecretary for International Affairs
U.S. Department of the Treasury
 

Followed by a conversation with

Mark Bowman

Director General
International and European Union at HM Treasury
 

Gargee Ghosh

President of Global Policy and Advocacy
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 

Nancy Lee

Senior Policy Fellow
Center for Global Development
 

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