Vaccine Hoarding Could Make The Pandemic Drag on an Extra 7 Years
5 MARCH 2021
We all desperately want this global pandemic to end, but that won t happen for many more years if the wealthiest nations don t share their vaccines with the rest of the world, argue health experts.
By mid-February 2021, 191 million vaccination shots had been administered, and more than three quarters of those were received in just 10 countries, according to the United Nations.
In contrast, by that same time, roughly 130 nations, which together include 2.5 billion people, had been given no shots at all. Not a single one.
Public health expert Gavin Yamey is the latest to join a chorus of other concernedvoices calling upon rich nations to stop hoarding COVID-19 vaccines.
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March 4, 2021
On Tuesday, the Eastern District of Texas granted a motion from tobacco companies to extend the effective date of an already postponed rule requiring graphics to be displayed on tobacco products showing smoking injuries. The Order explained that the rule would be postponed for an additional 90 days, until April 14, 2022.
“Any obligation to comply with the Tobacco Control Act’s warning requirements, 5 U.S.C. § 1333(a)(1) and (b)(1), and the additional requirements in 21 U.S.C. §§ 387c(a)(2) and 387t(a), is also postponed for an additional 90 days, as is any other obligation to comply with a deadline tied to the effective date of the rule,” Judge J. Campbell Barker said in the Order.
Andrew S. Weyrich and Richard R. Orlandi write that the University of Utah has built a COVID-19 testing system that is keeping the University running safely.
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