2/1/2021
Florida Department of Health Provides Week Seven Updates on Florida’s Vaccination Efforts Under Governor DeSantis’ Leadership
~Florida Leads Nation in Vaccinations of Seniors~
The Florida Department of Health issued an update on the progress of the state s vaccination efforts, as well as its weekly COVID-19 update. The State of Florida is in its seventh week of vaccine distribution and is continuing to increase vaccine access statewide.
This week, Governor DeSantis released his Florida Leads budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2021-2022. The “Florida Leads” budget proposal continues to protect Florida’s most vulnerable residents and put Florida’s Seniors First.
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Ellume Announces $231.8 Million Agreement with the U.S. Government to Scale Up Production of .
Ellume HealthFebruary 1, 2021 GMT
The contract includes the delivery of 8.5 million Ellume COVID-19 Home Tests to support the U.S. Government’s pandemic response
The investment will support the establishment of Ellume’s first U.S. manufacturing facility, increasing Ellume’s global production capacity by 500,000+ tests per day once completed;
The investment extends Ellume’s engagement with the U.S. government following the NIH RADx announcement last year; The Ellume COVID-19 Home Test is the first non-prescription over-the-counter self-test authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Biden Tips Liberian-Born of Indian Parents to Coordinate Malaria Initiative
Biden Tips Liberian-Born of Indian Parents to Coordinate Malaria Initiative
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Mr. Raj Panjabi, named by US President Joe Biden Monday was born in Liberia. His parents migrated to West Africa, where Panjabi was born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia. After civil war broke out in Liberia in 1989, Panjabi, at age nine, and his family fled on a rescue cargo plane to Sierra Leone and eventually sought asylum in the United States, resettling initially with a host family in High Point, North Carolina.
Washington – US President Joe Biden on Monday named Dr. Raj Panjabi to lead the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI).
COVID-19 and the doomsday clock
Jan 30,2021 - Last updated at Jan 30,2021
OSLO Last January, my fellow Elders Mary Robinson and Ban Ki-moon participated in the unveiling of the Doomsday Clock, the annual indicator of global catastrophic risk published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In 2020, the clock’s hands moved closer to “midnight” than they have ever been, just 100 seconds away, and they will remain there in 2021.
It is hardly reassuring that we came no closer to midnight this year. The COVID-19 pandemic has served as a stark and deadly demonstration of the precariousness of our way of life. We have made remarkable progress on vaccines, and a new US administration brings hope of renewed multilateral cooperation. But there is no doubt that the future will be rife with existential threats: New pandemics, the climate crisis, nuclear conflict and other risks that we cannot ignore.
SINGAPORE - Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is co-chairing a new international panel on the financing of pandemic preparedness and response.
He is one of three co-chairs of the Group of 20 High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, which was proposed under this year s G-20 Italian presidency.
The other two co-chairs are former United States treasury secretary Lawrence Summers, and former Nigerian finance and foreign minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
In a joint press statement on Thursday (Jan 28), the G-20, Bank of Italy and Italian Ministry of Finance said the panel will have two key tasks: to identify gaps in the financing system of the global commons for pandemic prevention, surveillance, preparedness and response; and to propose solutions to meet these gaps and leverage resources from the public, private and philanthropic sectors and international financial institutions.