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At home, Americans have widespread access to coronavirus vaccines. Abroad, many Americans in covid hot spots are angry about having to wait.
At home, Americans have widespread access to coronavirus vaccines. Abroad, many Americans in covid hot spots are angry about having to wait.
Image A health care worker prepares to administer the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Miami last month.Credit...Saul Martinez for The New York Times To the Editor: While many in the United States are choosing to reject or defer vaccination, U.S. citizens living overseas are desperately waiting to be included in President Biden’s promise to vaccinate all Americans. We need no special inducements. Many Americans live in countries where infections are rapidly escalating and no F.D.A.-approved vaccines are available, or where local governments prioritize their own citizens. My ...
IN NOVEMBER of 2019, Yvonne Johnson learnt a new term in shocking circumstances. She discovered she had a chordoma tumour behind her eyes that caused her to become cross-eyed, and experience nausea and dizziness. She eventually lost her sight in October 2020. "I never know what that is until that day, never know anything 'bout tumour," she said. After receiving the diagnosis, she got a referral to see a specialist who welcomed her with three ominous words: "You have money?" Johnson, who became a widow in 2013 after losing her husband to an untimely stroke, quit her job as a domestic helpe...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness (left) presents Youth Inspiring Positive Change founder Neville Charlton with the Prime Minister Youth Award for Excellence in the category of Youth Development. (Photo: Neville Charlton Facebook) Prime Minister Andrew Holness honoured 28 individuals and two organisations at the Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence on Sunday evening. The recipients were drawn from 10 categories with the presentations and messages being interspersed with a variety of entertainment performances from the island’s youths during the just over one hour and 20 minut...