The world is in the midst of its worst Covid crisis so far. It didn t have to be this way
As a global vaccine-sharing initiative backed by the World Health Organization rolls out across Africa, some low-income countries get their the first inoculations against coronavirus.
Posted: May 3, 2021 9:00 PM
Updated: May 3, 2021 9:00 PM
Posted By: By Laura Smith-Spark and Nectar Gan, CNN
A year ago, when the Covid-19 pandemic was still in its relative infancy, the head of the World Health Organization stressed that a global approach would be the only way out of the crisis. The way forward is solidarity: solidarity at the national level, and solidarity at the global level, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a media briefing in April 2020.
A year ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic was still in its relative infancy, the head of the World Health Organisation stressed that a global approach would be the only way out of the crisis. The way forward is solidarity: solidarity at the national level, and solidarity at the global level, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a media briefing in April 2020.
Fast-forward 12 months and the devastating scenes in India, where hospitals have been overwhelmed by a surge of COVID-19 cases and thousands are dying for lack of oxygen, suggest the warnings went unheeded.
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People wait in queues outside the office of the Chemists Association to demand necessary supply of the anti-viral drug Remdesivir, in Pune, India.(AP)
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Taishi Nakase selected as Princeton valedictorian, Lucy Wang named salutatorian
Emily Aronson, Office of Communications
April 26, 2021 5:26 p.m.
Taishi Nakase, an operations research and financial engineering concentrator from Melbourne, Australia, has been selected as valedictorian of Princeton’s Class of 2021. Lucy Wang, a chemistry concentrator from Marietta, Georgia, was named salutatorian.
The Princeton faculty accepted the nominations of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing at its April 26 meeting.
Commencement for the Class of 2021 will take place at Princeton Stadium on Sunday, May 16. Nakase and Wang are expected to give remarks at the ceremony.
Taishi Nakase
Taishi Nakase
Nakase plans to become a doctor and is interested in using mathematical modeling to confront global health challenges. After Princeton, he will pursue a master of science in modeling for global health at Oxford University before attending medical school.