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FILE - In this Monday, March 9, 2020 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization speaks during a news conference on updates regarding COVID-19, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The head of the World Health Organization warned against the idea that herd immunity might be a realistic strategy to stop the pandemic, dismissing such proposals as “unethical.&quot; At a press briefing on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said health officials typically aim to achieve herd immunity _ where the entire population is protected from a virus when the majority are immune _ by vaccination. Tedros noted that to obtain herd immunity from measles, for example, about 95% of the population must be vaccinated. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, file)

UN warns against pursuing herd immunity to stop coronavirus

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In this Jan. 26, 2017, file photo David Nabarro, U.N. secretary-general's special envoy on ebola, speaks to the media, at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP) ** FILE **

World Health Organization envoy urges end to coronavirus pandemic lockdowns

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A medical team member is disinfected before leaving the COVID-19 ward at the Severo Ochoa hospital in Leganes, outskirts of Madrid, Spain, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. At the peak of the first wave, ICU wards were given over to haste, desperation and even cluelessness about what to do. Now, a well-oiled machinery saves some lives and loses others to coronavirus, but without the doomsday atmosphere of March and April. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

UN: New daily record as COVID-19 cases hit more than 350,000

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In this image taken from WFP video, David Beasley, Executive director of the World Food Program (WFP), center, celebrates with members of WFP staff in Niamey, Niger, Friday Oct. 9, 2020, after being awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace prize. The World Food Program has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe. The announcement was made Friday in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Nobel Committee. (WFP via AP)

Nobel win reflects ‘hunger for international cooperation’

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

In this Oct. 22, 2011, file photo, a doctor examines a pregnant woman at the district women's hospital, in Allahabad, in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh. The World Health Organization, UNICEF and partners said there are about 2 million stillbirths every year, according to its first-ever global estimates published on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. The U.N. health agency said that last year, three in four stillbirths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa or Southern Asia; it defined a stillbirth as a baby born with no signs of life at 28 weeks of pregnancy or later. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

2 million stillbirths every year, pandemic might worsen toll

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The White House is seen in the background as sign of the National COVID-19 Remembrance, event at The Ellipse outside of the White House, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Poll: Many Americans blame virus crisis on US government

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

WHO: 10% of world’s people may have been infected with virus

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

WHO calls on Turkey to follow its COVID-19 reporting guides

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FILE - In this Monday, May 25, 2020 file photo, a vile of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate on a shelf during testing at the Chula Vaccine Research Center, run by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Refrigeration, cargo planes, and, above all, money: All risk being in short supply for the international initiative to get coronavirus vaccines to the world’s most vulnerable people. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Push to bring coronavirus vaccines to the poor faces trouble

By MARIA CHENG and LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the United Nations, U.S. President Donald Trump, is on video screens as his pre-recorded message is played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, at U.N. Headquarters in New York. The U.N.'s first virtual meeting of world leaders started Tuesday with pre-recorded speeches from some of the planet's biggest powers, kept at home by the coronavirus pandemic that will likely be a dominant theme at their video gathering this year. (U.N. Photo/Rick Bajornas via AP)

Trump slams Beijing at U.N. for spread of ‘China virus’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

WHO Europe chief urges nations to keep up virus quarantines

By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

A man wearing a face mask walks near a banner displaying as a part of campaign to overcome the coronavirus in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

The Latest: Mexico states run out of death certificates

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Members named to panel probing WHO’s pandemic response

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Panel set up to probe WHO response to coronavirus

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

WHO ‘strongly’ recommends steroids for critical COVID-19 patients

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Congo sees increase in plague, at least 10 deaths this year

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE - Associated Press

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Wilmington International Airport, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, in Wilmington, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US cuts remaining dues payment to WHO after Trump pullout

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 24, 2013 file photo, a Somali baby receives a polio vaccine at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia. Health authorities on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020 are expected to declare the African continent free of the wild poliovirus after decades of effort, though cases of vaccine-derived polio are still sparking outbreaks of the paralyzing disease in more than a dozen countries. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

UN says new polio outbreak in Sudan caused by oral vaccine

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

President Donald Trump walks from Air Force One as he arrives at Waukegan National Airport before attending a series of events in Kenosha, WI, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, in Waukegan, IL. (AP Photo/Matt Marton)

US says it won’t join global effort to find COVID-19 vaccine

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020 file photo woman walks, wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus, near the beach, in Saint Jean de Luz, southwestern France. The World Health Organization’s top official in Europe, Dr. Hans Kluge warned Thursday Aug. 27, 2020, that the coronavirus is a “tornado with a long tail” saying rising case counts among young people could ultimately spread the virus, and WHO issued advice to hotels as cases across Europe have increased amid the summer holiday season. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File)

In contrast to US, UN backs testing people without symptoms

By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press