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The Documents Speak. And They Tell a Very Different Story.

The Documents Speak. And They Tell a Very Different Story.

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We were told public health messaging during Covid was about “following the science.” But what this FOIA-obtained document reveals is something very different: A strategic communication campaign designed to shape perception, influence behavior, and saturate culture through entertainment and media.

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Rethinking US Global Health Funding: Welcome, and Long Overdue

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We agree that the international community should continue to support less-resourced members. However, we disagree that this should consist of perpetual and increasing payments to centralized agencies such as GFATM, GAVI, and the Pandemic Fund, or donor bureaucracies like USAID.

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Defunding Gavi: An Important Step Toward Decolonization?

Defunding Gavi: An Important Step Toward Decolonization?

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While chipping away at disease by disease with commodities like vaccines has proven lucrative to the health bureaucracy, it is not building the capacity and independence that offers a way out. Downsizing Gavi provides an opportunity to turn rhetoric into reality.

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Retsef Levi Explains His Vote against Routine RSV Monoclonal Use in Newborns

Retsef Levi Explains His Vote against Routine RSV Monoclonal Use in Newborns

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Levi is no stranger to weighing risk. A professor at MIT with deep experience in data analytics and risk-based decision-making, he had combed through five clinical trials of RSV monoclonals, including clesrovimab and its predecessor, nirsevimab.

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“Jail Bharo!”—Channelling Our Inner Gandhi

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The person most associated with civil disobedience is Mahatma Gandhi. In effect, he instrumentalised, operationalised, and weaponised Thoreau’s concept of civil disobedience (1849), turning it into an effective technique for peaceful mass mobilisation against a powerful opponent to win independence.

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