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Vaccine equality

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Does being educated at home limit or enrich children’s experiences? Lindsey T Powell and Cheryl Fields-Smith have different opinions. 

Richard Swift warns against vaccine fantasy and kneejerk technophilia.

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Making a point: Bill Gates addresses the media after his address to the World Health Assembly at the UN in Geneva. Reuters/Alamy

Nick Dowson investigates the oversized influence of Bill Gates on the global response to the pandemic 

: Government officials pray over a storage box containing Covid-19 vaccines before they leave for various vaccination centres in Mumbai, India, in January this year. India is one of the countries that is calling for patents on Covid-19 vaccines to be waived during the pandemic. DHIRAJ SINGH/BLOOMBERG/GETTY

Heidi Chow on how to roll out Covid-19 vaccines for all, equitably and at scale.

 

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Vaccine equality
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Democracy on the edge
/issues/2021/05/04/biodiversity-emergency
The biodiversity emergency
/issues/2020/11/02/caring-economy-what-would-it-take
A caring economy: What would it take?
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Covid-19: Lessons from the pandemic
/issues/2020/07/13/kurds-betrayed-again
The Kurds: Betrayed again
/issues/2020/04/22/fight-clean-air
The fight for clean air
/issues/2020/02/17/how-we-make-poverty
How we make poverty
/issues/2019/12/17/freedom-move-everyone
Freedom to move – for everyone
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China in charge

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