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US faces increased calls to share abundant COVID-19 vaccine doses with poorer countries Share Updated: 12:10 PM CDT Apr 24, 2021 By MARLON GONZÁLEZ and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press US faces increased calls to share abundant COVID-19 vaccine doses with poorer countries Share Updated: 12:10 PM CDT Apr 24, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript The supply and demand chain of vaccines is now beginning to be unbalanced. According to politico, the supply of covid vaccines now exceeds demand for them in rural areas and big cities despite eligibility restrictions, l...

April 14, 2021 Preface It is in the United States’ strategic interests to ensure that the world mobilizes effectively to end the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. A proactive U.S. role is essential to secure the gains underway in the United States and ensure Americans’ health, safety, and prosperity into the future. Helping to secure the future of lower- and middle-income countries is also simply the right thing to do, on humanitarian, economic, and security grounds. Today, the United States is quickly approaching a moment of genuine promise, when exceptionally effective vaccines, accelerated distribu...

Posted: Apr 13, 2021 1:15 PM PT | Last Updated: April 13 Cats that are too stressed by the testing process won't be sampled.(Colin Butler/CBC News) comments And, conversely, can Fluffy transmit it to you? Those are the big questions a small project by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control is hoping to answer in its just launched To help in the effort, the BCCDC is looking to wrangle 40 cats from volunteer homes with COVID-19 positive humans. "We started thinking about this project back in the spring when we first started hearing indications that pets were getting infected with COVID at a very...

Katherine E. Bliss, Senior Fellow and Project Director for the CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel, will provide opening remarks. J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, will then moderate a panel discussion on the federal reforms needed to strengthen confidence in vaccines, including Covid-19 vaccines, in the United States. This expert panel will feature Bruce Gellin, President of Global Immunization at the Sabin Vaccine Institute; Margaret “Peggy” Hamburg, former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Interim Vice Pr...

Jim Moll may not be the smartest man in Springfield, but the Hanson Professional Services engineer sounded like it during a public meeting held last week to discuss progress on a rail line under construction along 10th Street. The new line will replace tracks along Third Street. Moll's been in charge of the $353 million project for more than a decade, and he says it's on time and on budget. The feds gave the green light in 2012 and have paid millions of dollars since then to make it happen – there remains a $60 million gap, Moll says, but he's confident that the money will come. He seem...