Editorial 8: Omicron Offers an Opportunity to Get Global Health Collaboration Right

Editorial 1: Maintaining Perspective on COVID Vaccine Rollout

On April 19, 2021, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, gave a press conference in which he noted both that the world can bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control within “a matter of months,” and that the number of infections globally has risen each of the last eight weeks, producing 5.2 million new cases. Much of that rise has been driven by the continued emergence of variants.