The World Health Organization (WHO)—backed by several world leaders and global health groups—today launched an initiative to fast-track the development and scale-up of COVID-19 vaccines and drugs and make them available to nations who need them the most.With several continents continuing to report hefty daily case totals—and notable surges in Russia and India, for example—the global COVID-19 total reached 2,783,512 cases today in 185 countries, according the Johns Hopkins online dashboard.
So far, at least 195,313 people have died from their infections.Equitable scale-up of countermeasuresCalled Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, the WHO-led effort consists of a commitment for equitable access to new tools to battle COVID-19 and