Tag: Pandemics
Georgia Tech honors Fauci with annual social courage prize
ATLANTA — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the public face of the nation's fight against COVID-19, has accepted an award that honors his courage in leading...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro names 4th health minister during pandemic
SAO PAULO — With COVID-19 still raging in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro picked his fourth health minister since the pandemic began, this time the...
Canada lags in vaccinations but expects to catch up quickly
TORONTO — Canada once was hailed as a success story in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, faring much better than the United States in...
Researchers study impact of pandemic cancer screening pause
John Abraham’s colonoscopy was postponed for several months because of the pandemic. When he finally got it, doctors found a growth too big to...
Anxiety, confusion, terror: giving birth during a pandemic
NEW YORK — Pregnancy, birth and life with a newborn in the middle of a pandemic has brought on high anxiety, ever-shifting hospital protocols...
Somalia starts first inoculations with AstraZeneca vaccines
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia launched COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday with the inoculation of the health minister, who received the jab publicly to reassure the nation...
Voting starts in coronavirus-affected Dutch election
THE HAGUE, Netherlands —
Polling stations opened across the Netherlands...
Somalia starts first inoculations with AstraZeneca vaccines
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia launched COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday with the inoculation of the health minister, who received the jab publicly to reassure the nation...
Pandemic sets back Italian women’s long fight for jobs
ROME — One of hundreds of thousands of women in Italy who lost jobs in the pandemic, Laura Taddeo has a masters degree in...
US prison guards refusing vaccine despite COVID-19 outbreaks
A Florida correctional officer polled his colleagues earlier this year in a private Facebook group: “Will you take the COVID-19 vaccine if offered?”
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