Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith Takes Aim at Racial Gaps in Health Care
Appointed head of the incoming administration’s task force on health equity, the Yale University scientist “is not sitting in her ivory tower.”
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith will run the Biden administration’s task force on health equity. “The Biden-Harris team has been really clear on saying that our response and recovery needs to be equitable,” she said.Credit.Yale University
Jan. 8, 2021
Growing up in the United States Virgin Islands, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith saw firsthand what can happen in a community with limited access to health care. Her father, Moleto “Bishop” Smith Sr., was only in his 40s when he suffered a debilitating stroke that left him partly paralyzed and with slurred speech.
As State Legislatures Aim to Convene Amid Covid, One Tries a Drive-In
New Hampshire’s House of Representatives, whose speaker died of the coronavirus, has refused to meet remotely.
New Hampshire’s House of Representatives convened on Wednesday morning in a parking lot.Credit.Tristan Spinski for The New York Times
Jan. 7, 2021
DURHAM, N.H. New Hampshire’s House of Representatives convened on Wednesday morning in a parking lot, whipped by an icy wind and drowned out by occasional passing freight trains, in a legislative improvisation worthy of Rube Goldberg.
This was drive-in democracy: Three hundred and fifty-seven state representatives sat in idling cars, tuning into a shared radio frequency. When members expressed a desire to speak, via text message, House staff zipped across the lot in golf carts with microphones affixed to long booms, to stick into their car windows.
PriceSmart Announces Fiscal 2021 First Quarter Operating Results
SALES GROW 8.1% AND OPERATING INCOME INCREASES BY 45%
DILUTED EARNINGS PER SHARE GROW BY 40.6%
NET COMPARABLE MERCHANDISE SALES INCREASE BY 3.6%
E-COMMERCE ACHIEVES 3.1% PENETRATION OF TOTAL MERCHANDISE SALES
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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ PriceSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSMT), operator of 47 warehouse clubs in 12 countries and one U.S. territory, today announced its results of operations for the fiscal first quarter of 2021 which ended on November 30, 2020.
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Effective Monday, January 4, 2021, travellers from Barbados will be categorized as arriving from a high risk country, and must quarantine in an approved hotel for 10 days.
This change in the protocol for entry of travellers to St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) was announced by the National Emergency Mangement Organization (NEMO) Saturday night.
A change has also been made to the protocol for entry of travellers to SVG from medium risk countries, who will now have to spend five days in an approved hotel.
The change in categorization of Barbados from medium risk to high risk came just hours after the Barbados government announced that over the past two days, almost 200 people tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and that public health officials are investigating at least three clusters, one of which is a super spreader event accounting for the majority of new cases.
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Kingstown – Effective Monday, January 4, 2021, travellers from Barbados will be categorised as arriving from a high risk country, and must quarantine in an approved hotel for ten days.
This change in the protocol for entry of travellers to St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) was announced by the St Vincent National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) Saturday night, according to the Searchlight Newspaper in St Vincent.
A change has also been made to the protocol for entry of travellers to St Vincent from medium-risk countries, who will now have to spend five days in an approved hotel.
The change in categorisation of Barbados from medium risk to high risk came just hours after the Barbados government announced that over the past two days, almost 200 people tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) and that public health officials are investigating at least three clusters, one of which is a super spreader event accounting for the majorit