The World Bank Group will build on its initial COVID-19 response with $12 billion to help developing countries purchase vaccines, set up vaccination systems, and move quickly to vaccinate their people.
If you’re under 65, don’t hesitate to vaccinate against COVID-19
I am a 34-year-old open-heart surgery survivor who got the vaccine as part of a science experiment. I don’t regret it.
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People arrive in the lobby as Seattle Fire Department’s mobile vaccination team administers COVID-19 vaccines to residents at Columbia Place senior housing in South Seattle during a media visit on Jan. 26, 2021. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
I smiled when the thermometer read 102 degrees.
That morning in December, after poring over a pile of paperwork and signing my name a half-dozen times, I had received my first dose of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as part of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Phase 3 clinical trial. A sore arm was the first hint that I didn’t get the placebo, as one out of three in the study did, but I wasn’t sure.
US President Joe Biden has appointed Indian-origin Raj Panjabi to lead his Malaria Initiative, which is mainly in African and Asian countries.
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Joe Biden has appointed Indian-origin Raj Panjabi to lead his Malaria Initiative, which is mainly in African and Asian countries.
“After being sworn in this morning, I’m honored to share that I’ve been appointed by” Joe Biden as the president’s Malaria Coordinator to lead the US president’s Malaria Initiative, Raj Panjabi said on twitter. “I’m grateful for this chance to serve,” he added.
Born in Liberia, Raj Panjabi and his family fled the county during its civil war and arrived in the United States as refugees in the 1990s.
Updated Feb. 5
TALLAHASSEE â Gov. Ron DeSantisâ administration announced Friday that it is shaking up the leadership in agencies on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Top staffers responsible for fighting the virus, combating the negative social consequences of the pandemic and getting unemployment claims processed are all leaving their current roles.
⢠After two years at the helm of the Department of Children and Families, Chad Poppell is resigning effective Feb. 19, according to a letter he sent to DeSantis.
⢠Shevaun Harris, who is serving as acting secretary for the Agency for Health Care Administration since October, was tapped as Poppellâs replacement.
He also needs to force federal regulatory agencies to provide more clarity in their guidance to states. When you issue stay-at-home orders and shut businesses you must provide adequate information to justify those actions so people understand them and comply. Currently, state and local governments are left with bits of partial and inconstant information, with which they make major decisions regarding public health and economic impact.
When I served as the deputy chief of Cal/OSHA, leading California’s standards and enforcement work, I learned that you need clear, compelling arguments to justify closing businesses. Having a void of top-down credible information, conflicting facts and popular fear has led to a mixture of inconstant policies with considerable economic impacts. State and local governments do not have the resources to conduct original research, or the resources to enforce such large-scale and consequential actions. If science shows that outdoor dining is much safer tha