Colleges Distribute Vaccines, Though Most Students, Faculty Arenât Eligible For Shots Yet
The state of Massachusetts has enlisted several local colleges to help distribute the vaccine to healthcare workers and first responders.
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A handful of Massachusetts college campuses are serving as vaccine distribution centers, sparking a public health debate, as most college students and faculty wonât be eligible for their shots until April at the earliest.
Boston University, Northeastern, Tufts, UMass, Salem State and Harvard are already operating as vaccine distribution centers, and the state has approved about a dozen more colleges to administer vaccines. Students, faculty and staff just returning to campuses are relatively low on the priority list for the shots in Massachusetts.
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Zambian morgue study suggests Covid-19 deaths being undercounted Covid found in a fifth of corpses, suggesting Africa may be worse affected than thought
Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 17:16 David Pilling
A Covid-19 patient at Green-acres Hospital in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Photograph: Samantha Reinders/The New York Times
A study of corpses in a Zambian morgue suggests that deaths from Covid-19 may have been routinely undercounted in the country, and by extension possibly elsewhere in Africa, challenging the view that the continent has avoided the worst effects of the pandemic.
According to official records, just over 90,000 people have died from Covid-19 in Africa, which equates to about 4 per cent of the global death toll in a continent that makes up 17 per cent of the world’s population.
The Social Order
From the time of the Roman Empire until well after the discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium in 1882, many of the best medical minds believed that miasmas invisible vapors emitted from the earth caused killer infections such as typhus, diphtheria, and malaria. Though the bacteriological revolution of the late nineteenth century routed that theory, a new miasma theory has lately sprung up in schools of public health, holding that racism and sexism, though as unmeasurable as the ancient miasmas, cause AIDS, cancer, drug addiction, and heart disease. Indeed, according to public health professors, living in America is acutely hazardous to women and minorities, so shot through is the United States with sickness-producing even fatal injustice and bigotry.