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Coronavirus and the Gates Foundation
Arguably, no one has been more active in promoting and funding research on vaccines aimed at dealing with coronavirus than Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. From sponsoring a simulation of a coronavirus global pandemic, just weeks before the Wuhan outbreak was announced, to funding numerous corporate efforts to come up with a novel vaccine for the apparently novel virus, the Gates presence is there. What does it actually entail?
We must admit that at the very least Bill Gates is prophetic. He has claimed for years that a global killer pandemic will come and that we are not prepared for it. On March 18, 2015 Gates gave a TED talk on epidemics in Vancouver. That day he wrote on his blog, “I just gave a brief talk on a subject that I’ve been learning a lot about lately epidemics. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a tragedy as I write this, more than 10,000 people have died.” Gates then added, “As awful as this epidemi
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COVID-19 vaccinations will start at Maui Community Correctional Center next week as the jail deals with its first outbreak of the pandemic. MCCC currently has 18 active cases after two inmates recovered from the virus.
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Maui Community Correctional Center inmates will be vaccinated against COVID-19 starting next week amid efforts to tamp down an outbreak at the jail, the state Department of Health said Wednesday.
The vaccine will go to inmates who request it, about 60 percent of the population, said Bridget Velasco, a planner with the Office of Public Health Preparedness at the Maui District Health Office.
by Kim Krisberg
Funny cats and disaster preparedness. It s a marriage made in Internet heaven. Cats are all over the Internet, says Michele Late, coordinator of the American Public Health Association s (APHA) Cat Preparedness Photo Contest. And if cats are what people want, then marrying them with emergency preparedness seems like a smart fit.
Launched just after Labor Day weekend, APHA s cat photo contest takes its inspiration from the enormous popularity of an Internet meme known as LOLcats, in which yep, you guessed it people take funny photos of cats and photoshop them with funny text called LOLspeak. (The phenomenon began with a photo of a gray cat sitting on its hind legs with its mouth open and text that reads: I can haz cheezburger? If you re a cat lover, this is hilarious. Believe me.) Need more proof? The I Can Haz Cheezburger website has 24 million fans who share half a million photos every month.