Stunning Omicron Data & A Few of Our Favorite Books
Stunning Omicron Data & A Few of Our Favorite Books
Better health begins with ideas
Editors' Note We hope this Friday finds you well, and that many of you are taking time to be with loved ones or to rest before the start of the new year. Our first piece comes from a physician—the first doctor in his South Sudan community—who says that while vaccine hesitancy was surmountable in his patients, the supply constraints on COVID-19 shots have not been. The second article notes the stunning speed at which omicron cases are spreading and assesses the latest data on how to manage the variant sensibly. Our third piece urges making research and development (R&D) equity an explicit objective in national and international development programs and global health collaborations. Another hope-filled article explains how menstrual resources have become more accessible in India and across the globe during the pandemic. A report on mRNA technology celebrates its success with COVID-19 vaccines and the promise it holds for previously untreatable diseases.
Our Culture Friday feature is a slideshow of our global health colleagues' favorite books this year—the ones that kept us reading well past when we should have turned out the lights.
As always, thank you for reading. —Thomas J. Bollyky and Mary Brophy Marcus, Editors
This Week's Highlights 
by Paulino Buda Geri South Sudan jumped the vaccine hesitancy hurdle, but people are queuing up for shots that aren't there
by Ali H. Mokdad and Katherine Leach-Kemon 
by Carel IJsselmuiden, Cathy Garner, Francine Ntoumi, Jaime Montoya, and Gerald T. Keusch
Stat of the Week 72,000 Last spring, South Sudan returned 72,000 COVID-19 vaccines, concerned the shots would expire before it could find enough people willing to take them
Recommended Feature
by Sumegha Asthana and Arundati Muralidharan Innovation and outreach by individuals, governments, and global organizations have advanced understanding and support
by Vibhor Mishra and Tulika Rastogi COVID-19 vaccines catapulted mRNA technology into the spotlight, and now it's used to cure previously untreated diseases
by Caroline Kantis
What We're Reading 
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