St Luke’s to explore the future of health education
Apr 27, 2021 10:56 AM PHT
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Saint Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine-
William H. Quasha Memorial
As part of its newly launched “The Future of Health” conversation series, the Saint Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial, through its new Planetary and Global Health Program, will be holding a 4th episode titled “The Future of Planetary Health Professions Education” on May 12, at 9 am (Manila time).
Health professions schools – such as medical, nursing, dental, and public health schools – have the mandate to educate students to ultimately take their place in the health workforce as excellent, compassionate, and ethical professionals.
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Apr. 27, 2021 8:54 PM
Concern that the full reopening of the Israeli economy and of the country’s schools would lead to a new outbreak of the coronavirus has proven unwarranted. Though a few isolated outbreaks have been reported at schools, the incidence of the virus around the country demonstrates that the pandemic is clearly on the wane.
On Sunday, just 77 Israelis tested positive for the virus. Only 0.3% of those tested for COVID-19 tested positive and the R factor, reflecting the average number of people infected by the average infected individual, is 0.79, which indicates that cases are on the decline. More than six million Israelis are considered protected against the virus – the 5.4 million who have been vaccinated, in addition to another 840,000 who have recovered from the illness, including 150,000 who have recovered and have now received a single dose of the vaccine, in accordance with the latest recommenda
Uri Cohen 04/20/2021
Details hidden from public after Israel buys 15 million more doses of vaccines against the coronavirus from Pfizer and Moderna
Israel’s government acquired its latest batch of vaccines against the coronavirus, securing a total of 15 million new doses from both Pfizer and Moderna as it continues to outpace the world with its inoculation rate.
The agreements were reached on Monday following weeks of political quarreling between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz, who delayed the purchase’s approval after Netanyahu blocked Gantz’s justice minister appointee. Gantz also serves as the country’s defense minister.
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It all started like a play. But over a year after, the world has yet to fully recover from Covid-19 pandemic destruction. When the coronavirus broke out in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China at the end of 2019, no one could have predicted what was to come.
But by January 2020, as the coronavirus spread its wings from China across international borders, it started to gain international attention, which, of course, has yet to wane.
By the end of January 2020, China took unprecedented lockdown measures affecting its over a billion people. But that measure failed to contain the virus. Instead, by February 2020, coronavirus had spread to Europe and North America. Countries on these continents also quickly placed lockdowns.
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Apr. 18, 2021 9:50 PM
With the number of Israelis vaccinated against COVID-19 topping 5 million and the country experiencing fewer than 100 new daily cases, the government ended its outdoor mask mandate on Sunday, spurring widespread celebration and forcing people to change deeply ingrained habits formed by just over a year of mandatory virus precautions.
“I forgot I was wearing it. I walked outside and forgot to take it off,” Harold, an immigrant from Chicago, said as he removed his mask on the sidewalk outside a pharmacy in the Jerusalem suburb of Ramat Bet Shemesh.