Peter K. Ben Embarek led a contentious international investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tag: World Health Organization
As Hospitals Close and Doctors Flee, Sudan’s Health Care System Is Collapsing
The medical professionals who remain face meager supplies and harrowing conditions, even setting up field hospitals in living rooms amid the fighting.
Chinese Censorship Is Quietly Rewriting the Covid-19 Story
Under government pressure, Chinese scientists have retracted studies and withheld or deleted data. The censorship has stymied efforts to understand the virus.
China Rejects W.H.O. Accusations of Hiding Wuhan Covid Data
The rebukes came after overseas researchers discovered sequences that had not been previously shared.
New Marburg Outbreaks in Africa Raise Alarm About the Deadly Virus’s Spread
The spread of the Ebola-like virus has claimed lives but could be a crucial chance to test a vaccine — if supplies and researchers are mobilized in time.
First Official Estimate of Somalia’s Drought Shows 43,000 Dead
At least half of the deaths were children under the age of 5, according to the report by health researchers, the United Nations and the Somali government.
WHO Accuses China of Withholding Data on Covid’s Origins
Genetic research from China suggests to some experts that the coronavirus may have sprung from a seafood market in Wuhan. Now the data are missing from a scientific database.
African Countries Made Huge Gains in Life Expectancy. Now That Could Be Erased.
Incidence of illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension is climbing quickly in most sub-Saharan countries, but the conditions are rarely diagnosed or treated.
Global Declines in Maternal Mortality Have Stalled
Death rates in the United States have increased in recent years, as they have in Europe, the W.H.O. reported.
Turkey and Syria Earthquake Death Toll Tops 7,700 As Rescuers Fight Weather
Shoveling snow and rubble, emergency crews worked across hundreds of miles in Turkey and Syria to save people in the aftermath of the most powerful quake in the region in decades.