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Graphic Truth: Shots across the border
GZERO North

Graphic Truth: Shots across the border

Cases of measles, a highly contagious disease that can linger in the air for up to two hours, are rising in Canada.

“Health is a human right”: How the world can make up progress lost to COVID
Crisis Recovery

“Health is a human right”: How the world can make up progress lost to COVID

2 billion people are facing "catastrophic or impoverishing" health spending worldwide according to the World Health Organization. And governments in the Global South are taking on more and more debt at the expense of investment in health and social services.

How development of the COVID-19 vaccine shattered records
GZERO World Clips

How development of the COVID-19 vaccine shattered records

They said it couldn't be done: a vaccine developed in record time. In 1967, Merck had a license for a mumps vaccine, less than five years for work that normally takes decades. But that record is now being shattered as the COVID-19 vaccine reaches the market in less than a year. It's an unprecedented scientific development in a whirlwind year of crisis.