Essay: Installing solar-powered refrigerators in developing countries is an effective way to reduce hunger and slow climate change
In an article first published on The Conversation, ABAY YIMERE, a postdoctoral scholar in international environment and resource policy at Tufts University, looks at the difference expanding food cold chains can make, if it’s done in a way that avoids contributing to climate change…
With scant power or freezers, Pfizer vaccine brings little cheer to coronavirus-hit India
New Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Despite hopes raised by Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, it will take huge efforts for India to defeat the coronavirus, with its 1.3 billion population and the world’s second-highest caseload. Pfizer Inc’s Monday announcement that initial trials showed their experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90 per cent effective sparked cheer across […]
Why Pfizer’s ultra-cold COVID-19 vaccine will not be at the local pharmacy any time soon
New York City, USReuters Work to distribute the experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE is gearing up after the companies announced successful interim data earlier on Monday, but it will not be coming to local pharmacies for the general public any time soon. The data, which sent US stocks to record […]