Experts: Identifying COVID-19 origin important, predicting next pandemic vital
By (0) Efforts to find the origins of the coronavirus are important, but spotting the next pandemic is crucial, experts say. Illustration courtesy of CDC
March 11 (UPI) Finding the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19 could guide public health efforts aimed at ending the current pandemic, experts from Duke University said Thursday.
However, identifying new bugs that threaten to start the next one is even more vital, they said during a conference call with reporters hosted by the school.
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Learning where the coronavirus first jumped from animals to humans will certainly help us put together the puzzle for this pandemic, Dr. Gregory Gray said on the call.
Left out of Dominican vaccine plan, Haitians face new form of discrimination 2 minutes read
By Maria Montecelos
Santo Domingo, Mar 11 (efe-epa) .- Born in the Dominican Republic to Haitian parents, Anairis is on the verge of giving birth to her third daughter. But under the terms of the Dominican government’s immunization plan, neither she nor her children will receive the Covid-19 vaccine due to a lack identity documents.
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians – the country’s main immigrant community – face the same ordeal, which Anairis regards as a new form of the marginalization she has suffered her entire life.
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