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The dire prediction comes from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), which has been warning against distribution inequality since a Covid-19 vaccine was created last year.
Dr Abhishek Rimal, Asia Pacific emergency health coordinator for the organisation, says data in March showed 74 per cent of Covid vaccines already produced have been sold to the top 10 high-income countries.
“There is growing recognition of fair and equitable distribution of the vaccine, but that’s yet to translate into reality,” says Rimal.
“The investment is not coming on that and most of the doses are still going to the high-income countries.”
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Media release from the RNZCGP
Wednesday 12 May 2021, 03:54 PM
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has awarded $13,478 today to research that benefits general practice.
The College received eight applications for the first funding round of the year and awarded funding to one applicant, Dr Mona Jeffreys. Dr Jeffreys has been funded for a research assistant for her research that asks, ‘Do general practice capitation fees account for concentrations of complexity?’
The aim of her study, which she is doing through Victoria University of Wellington, is to measure primary health care use and funding in general practice, for practices with differing levels of high needs patients.
Christopher Cornwall,
University of Amsterdam
The twin stress factors of ocean warming and acidification increasingly threaten coral reefs worldwide, but relatively little is known about how various climate scenarios will affect coral reef growth rates.
Our research, published today, paints a grim picture. We estimate that even under the most optimistic emissions scenarios, we’ll see dramatic reductions in coral reef growth globally.
The good news is that 63% of all reefs in this emissions scenario will still be able to grow by 2100.
But if emissions continue to rise unabated, we predict 94% of coral reefs globally will be eroding by 2050. Even under an intermediate emissions scenario, we project a worst-case outcome in which coral reefs on average will no longer be able to grow vertically by 2100.
BY ABC News Radio | May 10, 2021
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(NEW YORK) The fate of coral reefs around the world remains grim should global warming continue at its current rate, according to new research.
Coral reefs will stop growing in the next decade or so unless a significant reduction in greenhouse gases is achieved, a new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests.
A team of researchers led by Christopher Cornwall, a marine botanist at the Victoria University of Wellington in Australia, analyzed data from 183 reefs worldwide to estimate the effects of ocean warming and acidification, which are posing increasing threats to underwater ecosystems.