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Israeli Prime Minister Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel December 19, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen/Pool. Over one million Israelis have now been vaccinated against the coronavirus in the first weeks of the country’s rollout, a per capita rate that is by far the fastest internationally and which has stunned observers from around the world. More than 11% of the country’s population has now been given the COVID-19 vaccine — more than three times the next-fastest country, Bahrain, and well above the ...

Israel Leads The Global Vaccination Race Published December 30th, 2020 - 12:50 GMT An Israeli military medic gets vaccinated against the COVID-19 coronavirus at the medical centre of Tzrifin military base in the Israeli town of Rishon Lezion on December 28, 2020. JACK GUEZ / AFP Highlights Israel's health minister said on Wednesday that nearly 152,000 people had been vaccinated in a day, bringing the total well above half a million.  Israel is leading the global vaccination race with more than seven per cent of its population already given the jab in the space of nine days.  Some 644,...

Economics Is About How To Grow The Pie, Not How To Slice It Up  Share   Share Trending My recent three-part series (here, here, and here) explained why policy makers should seek to reduce poverty rather than inequality. I want to expand on that point today by showing why growing the pie is more important than how it is sliced. I’ve previously opined on why economic growth is important, showing that the United States today would be almost as poor as Mexico if our rate of economic growth since 1895 was just one-percentage point less than it actually was. Moreover, I also showed in that ...

Fascinating graphs reveal how highly infectious diseases were all-but wiped out after vaccines were developed to fight them - as Covid jabs start rolling out across the globe First-ever vaccine was made to fight smallpox, a highly infectious disease thought to have killed half a billion  Chart reveals how deaths dropped after vaccine was developed, before disease wiped out globally in 1980  Graphs also reveal how cases and deaths from polio and measles dropped rapidly after vaccines  Coronavirus vaccination has now begun worldwide, bringing hope that life may soon return to normality

NST Leader: Cease fire © Provided by New Straits Times Yemeni children walk through a market in the old city of Sana'a, Yemen, 12 December 2020. Yemen continues to face a humanitarian and economic crisis as its economic conditions are deteriorating rapidly due to the armed conflict which escalated since late 2014 between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government. - EPA/YAHYA ARHAB YEMEN, once the Fortunate Arabia, is now the unfortunate one. It has been so since the civil war started five years ago. Now the United Nations is warning that another misfortune in the form of yet another fa...