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Due to limited resources, delayed start-ups, chronic shortages — and official scandals — only a fraction of Latin America and the Caribbean has been inoculated.

Virologist Marion Koopmans was part of a WHO team that reconstructed the early coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. She talked with NPR about her team's investigation.

At least three people have died and four more are confirmed infected with the Ebola virus. The government declared an outbreak in a rural community.

A small study in South Africa has raised concerns about the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca vaccine, particularly in fighting virus variants.

A leader of the global COVID vaccine procurement mission acknowledges the pandemic disaster in Latin America and the Caribbean is its "greatest priority."

Six takeaways from discussions at the annual meeting of the World Health Organization's Executive Board.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus responded, "Thank you my brother Tony," and thanks also to the U.S. for renewing its support.

COMMENTARY Few regions need an effective COVID vaccine campaign more urgently than Latin America. So far, in Brazil and elsewhere, that's not happening.

The medicine is one of the few to win regulatory approval as a treatment for the disease, but has fallen out of favor with the health authority.

Despite the high numbers of cases, most of the world's population is still vulnerable to getting infected and this pandemic is far from over, the WHO's head of emergencies Dr. Michael Ryan says.

A Trump administration spokesman says Washington will continue to engage the rest of the world in vaccine development but won't be "constrained" by the "corrupt" World Health Organization.