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The US is finally joining the push for global vaccine access. It s almost certainly not going to be enough.
The US is finally joining the push for global vaccine access. It s almost certainly not going to be enough.
Sinéad BakerJan 30, 2021, 16:22 IST
A health worker prepares a syringe before applying it to the patient during a vaccination drill in Bogota, Colombia, in January 2021.Guillermo Legaria/Getty Images
President Biden committed the US to COVAX, the scheme to help poorer nations get vaccines.
But the project is already struggling, and the details of the US contribution are vague.
Experts see the scheme as the bare minimum, that will leave deep inequality even if it works.
US finally joined push for global vaccine access to SA and others. It s almost certainly not enough Jan 30, 2021, 12:44 PM
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A health worker prepares a syringe before applying it to the patient during a vaccination drill in Bogota, Colombia, in January 2021.
Guillermo Legaria/Getty Images
But the project is already struggling, and the details of the US contribution are vague.
Experts see the scheme as the bare minimum, that will leave deep inequality even if it works.
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As the world s rich countries place orders for enough coronavirus vaccines to inoculate their populations several times over, the World Health Organisation has been pushing a scheme to get poorer countries access as well.
Washington DC [US], January 30 (ANI/Sputnik): The new strain of the novel coronavirus that first appeared in the United Kingdom will become more dominant in the United States by the middle of spring, US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said.
UK Covid Strain To Become More Dominant In US By Early Spring: Top Expert UK Covid Strain To Become More Dominant In US By Early Spring: Top Expert The projection that is made with regard to the UK [variant] is that by the end of March, the beginning of April it actually will become more dominant in this country, Fauci said.
Anthony Fauci said it s not clear whether South African strain will eventually dominate in US. (File)
Washington:
The new strain of the novel coronavirus that first appeared in the United Kingdom will become more dominant in the United States by the middle of spring, US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said.
The only pattern in so-called long COVID is there is no pattern, as it appears to affect even those who experienced more mild disease, specialists told clinicians on a CDC call on Thursday. Long COVID is nebulous, particularly because it can overlap with other complications of COVID-19 illness, such as hospitalization complications and post-intensive care syndrome, or even multisystem inflammatory disorder, said Alfonso Hernandez-Romieu, MD, of the CDC.
And there is no standardized definition of the condition, either. Persistent severe fatigue, headache, brain fog, and mild cognitive impairment are some of the most commonly presenting symptoms, and patients tend to present more than 4 weeks after illness. However, Hernandez-Romieu noted that these symptoms can be independent of disease severity, and can be newly occurring or recurring symptoms.