How are you?
Nothing has been simple in 2020, neither questions nor answers.
With its first confirmed case in Virginia on March 7, COVID-19 and the virus that causes it, SARS-CoV-2, tore through communities and separated loved ones. It wreaked uncertainty and unknowns, masks and mandates, loneliness, fear, anger, exhaustion and mourning.
The new coronavirus has affected every person, every day, in almost every way: careers, finances, education, nutrition, housing, faith, business, politics, travel, family and relationships. It’s changed how people connect with the world and each other. It has upended priorities.
Early on, it seemed like preparing for a Richmond snow day. We hustled to the grocery store. We made runs for toilet paper and hand sanitizer. We brought children home from school, temporarily. But that scenario gave way to the realization that a pandemic was bearing down.
By Yang Zerui · 2020-11-29 · Source: NO.49 DECEMBER 3, 2020
Executives of Maxis, the largest mobile operator in Malaysia, and Huawei, Chinese 5G technology supplier, sign a 5G network agreement in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on October 3, 2019 (XINHUA)
The 27th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders Meeting held on November 20 via video link was significant for several reasons. This year is the target date for meeting the second objective of the APEC goals set in 1994. Known as the Bogor Goals after the city in Indonesia where APEC leaders met that year, the objective was to create a free trade and investment system for the developed member economies by 2010, and by 2020 for developing member economies.
Ashraf Ghani Fast Facts
Personal
Birth name: Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai
Father: Shah Pesand
Religion: Muslim
Other Facts
Ghani is a former US citizen who gave up his passport to run for the Afghan presidency in 2009.
He was working at the World Bank in Washington during the September 11 attacks, and used the tragedy as a springboard for his re-engagement in Afghan politics, returning to his home country just months after the event.
Was diagnosed with cancer and had to have part of his stomach removed.
Hired Democratic pundit James Carville to manage his 2009 presidential campaign.
His wife is Lebanese-American.
1977 – Comes to the United States to study anthropology at Columbia University in New York.
New providers join Families First, Goodwin health centers
Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH / SOMERSWORTH – Two family physicians and a physician assistant have recently joined Goodwin Community Health in Somersworth and Families First Health & Support Center in Portsmouth.
Joseph E. Fuller Jr., MD, FAAFP, earned his medical degree at University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Mass. In the early 1980s, Dr. Fuller worked at Lamprey Health Care in Raymond and Newmarket; he says he is glad to once again be working in community health care, where his career began. Though most of his career has been in family practice, he has also practiced medicine in hospital emergency rooms, convalescent centers and a physical therapy practice. For the past 13 years he worked at Rochester Hill Family Practice and as an attending physician at Frisbie Memorial Hospital. He is board-certified in family practice and has a special certificate of added qualifications in geriatrics. He will be
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A health policy expert has claimed that the US could reach herd immunity after just 20 per cent of the country’s population has had the coronavirus vaccine.
Speaking to Fox News’
The Story on Monday evening, Dr Marty Makary, a professor of surgery and health policy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said “there is a false construct out there” in regards to the vaccine.
“There’s a recommendation that we need to get every American immunised in order to get a handle on the pandemic,” Dr Makary said on Monday.
“The reality is that about 25 to 50 per cent of Americans have already had the infection and have some natural immunity.