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Caption Georgia is expecting to get more than 80,000 doses of the J&J vaccine this week, Gov. Brian Kemp said Saturday. Credit: Georgia Health News
Now that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is heading to Georgia and other states, will it reduce the number of people who are hesitant about getting a COVID-19 shot?
A recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey suggests that J&J’s new single-dose vaccine will make a difference in public attitudes. The two vaccines that have been in use in this country up to now are administered in two shots, spaced weeks apart.
In the survey, about a quarter of respondents in the “wait and see’’ category (waiting to see how vaccines work on others) said they would be more likely to get immunized if only one dose was required.
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As the United States continues to lead the world in most coronavirus deaths and cases, leading scientists and public health experts at Emory University say the pandemic is a “clarion call” to examine ways to bolster and modernize systems that support and guide science, technology, and public health in the country.
Writing in the most recent issue of the medical journal
JAMA, K.M. Venkat Narayan, MD, Ruth and O.C. Hubert professor of global health at Rollins School of Public Health, James Curran, MD, dean at Rollins, and William Foege, MD, emeritus presidential distinguished professor at Rollins, say the national crisis has “exposed critical weaknesses” in the institutional systems intended to protect and promote personal and public health.
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Parent firm of COP26 sponsor opened big gas plants in Mexico
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The parent company of one of the ‘green’ sponsors of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow has opened four new gas-fired power plants in Mexico since 2019.
Spanish-based utilities giant Iberdrola signed 25-year contracts to construct, operate and maintain the new plants, which have a combined capacity of nearly 3.5 gigawatts, in 2018. Construction of the plants was completed between 2019 and 2020, and all four are now operational.
In November 2020 Iberdrola’s British subsidiary, ScottishPower, was selected by the UK Government as one of the principal corporate partners of the global climate summit (COP26), which is due to be held in Glasgow in November 2021.