Print article Even the main players in a new, business-leaning COVID-19 nonprofit admit it seems like a strange time to form a group with a mission centered on staying safe during the coronavirus pandemic. Two vaccines just got rolled out. Alaska’s daily case counts have dropped to lows not seen since October. Hospitalizations of people with COVID-19 are down. That’s just why the Conquer COVID Coalition is important now, says Jared Kosin, who heads up a statewide hospital association and serves as a co-chair of the new group. “This is a critical point in the pandemic. We all, for the first time, have a sense of hope,” Kosin said Tuesday, the same day Anchorage officials announced that the city would relax some pandemic restrictions on businesses starting Friday. “It’s really easy to become complacent right now because it doesn’t feel like COVID is as scary, it doesn’t feel as threatening.”
Print article The first time I walked into the annex in the maternity section of the state hospital managed by Doctors Without Borders (or Medecins Sans Frontiers, MSF) in northern Nigeria, I was astonished to see three postpartum women per twin bed. The mothers scarcely had room for themselves, leave alone for caring for their newborns. Many of these women were young, often adolescents, who did not choose and were not prepared for motherhood. The power structure in their culture did not permit them to advocate for themselves. I was outraged, because this overcrowding of the postpartum ward by MSF reflected its priorities. It perpetuated the notion that these women were powerless and without agency.
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Moving scenes show the first coronavirus vaccine in the US being administered to healthcare workers across the country
Moving scenes show the first coronavirus vaccine in the US being administered to healthcare workers across the countryhttps://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/moving-scenes-show-the-first-coronavirus-vaccine-in-the-us-being-administered-to-healthcare-workers-across-the-country/slidelist/79776239.cms2020-12-17T14:22:46+05:30
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Moving scenes show the first coronavirus vaccine in the US being administered to healthcare workers across the country
Lauren FriasDec 17, 2020, 14:22 IST
Vincent Kalut / Photonews via Getty Images
Healthcare workers administered shots to their colleagues across the nation this week, beginning the next long-awaited phase of the pandemic since it began in March.
Vincent Kalut / Photonews via Getty Images
Healthcare workers administered shots to their colleagues across the nation this week, beginning the next long-awaited phase of the pandemic since it began in March.
The Food and Drug Administration gave emergency use approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last Friday, and the first batches of the vaccine rolled out earlier this week.
The vaccine is said to be 95% effective, experts said.
The first US coronavirus vaccine rolled out across the country this week in record time.
The Food and Drug Administration gave emergency use approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last Friday. The vaccine is said to be 95% effective, experts said. Batches of the vaccine were packaged and rolled out overnight on Sunday, and healthcare workers on the front lines were among the first to receive the shot.