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Image credit: Arun Sankar Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. It’s no secret why poor countries don’t have as many vaccines as rich countries. “There’s really just a scarcity of doses,” says Kate Elder, senior vaccine policy adviser at Doctors Without Borders’ Access Campaign. The question is, how do you fix it? In the U.S., more tha...

Its no secret why poor countries dont have as many vaccines as rich countries. "Theres really just a scarcity of doses," says Kate Elder, senior vaccine policy adviser at Doctors Without Borders Access Campaign. The question is, how do you fix it? In the U.S., more than 1 out of every 5 residents is fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The U.S. and several other wealthy nations, including Canada and many European Union member states, are on track to vaccinate most of their populations by mid-2022...

Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images People wait for their turn to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a government hospital in Chennai, India, on Friday. Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images Its no secret why poor countries dont have as many vaccines as rich countries. "Theres really just a scarcity of doses," says Kate Elder, senior vaccine policy adviser at Doctors Without Borders Access Campaign. The qu...

US President Joe Biden. | Mandel Ngan/ AFP A group of over 170 world leaders and Nobel Prize winners have urged United States President Joe Biden to support a waiver proposing to suspend rules of intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to boost global vaccination rates. India and South Africa had moved this proposal at the World Trade Organization in October. The letter, released to the media on Wednesday, said that the World Trade Organization’s w...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The United States has now fully vaccinated more than 1 of 5 residents against COVID-19, but the distribution of coronavirus vaccine is a different story elsewhere in the world. The entire continent of Africa, for example, has received just 2% of the worlds vaccine doses so far. Some countries are bracing to wait months or even years before they have enough supply to fully vaccinate their populations. Here to discuss is senior vaccine policy adviser at Doctors Without Bo...

True West Magazine Jim Hoy’s highly personal biography of the Kansas Flint Hills, two new biographies of Butch Cassidy, Bill Neal’s autobiography and Deborah Swenson’s debut Western novel. From my earliest years, I remember my parents sharing with me their love of the American West and their app-reciation and knowledge of the West’s writers, artists, educators and filmmakers. I discovered quickly that I could travel great distances from North Hollywood, California, across the West throu...

True West Magazine Doc Holliday vs Mike Gordon Hoodoo Brown’s court invents “excusable homicide” Gambler draws a “pair of sixes” and is “froze out.” By Bob Boze Bell Based on the research of Gary L. Roberts Doc Holliday was serious about his Las Vegas business ventures. He was building an annex to his saloon, which some believe was for a dental office. A shootout with a drunk would derail everything. – Illustrations by Bob Boze Bell –   July 19, 1879 Mike Gordon has been on ...

On our radar Landmark Syria torture verdict A German court this week convicted a former member of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s security apparatus of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity, the first verdict in a case rights groups hope will pave the way for more trials related to the country’s 10-year war. Eyad al-Gharib was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for his role in arresting people who were later tortured. German prosecutors used the principle of “universal ...

As the coronavirus pandemic exploded worldwide last April, global organizations banded...

On Thursday, Anthony Fauci informed the World Health Organization that the Biden administration will participate in WHO’s vaccine-sharing project. That revers