C-TAP Second Anniversary Panel Discussion Webinar The WHO COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (WHO C-TAP), on its second-year anniversary, would like to kindly invite you to participate in a Panel Discussion Webinar to stimulate the debate on advancing C-TAP’s ability to promote equitable access to COVID-19 health technologies. The Secretariat will […]
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FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Announces Operational Plan for COVID-19 Vaccinations for Children Under 5
Driven by President Biden’s comprehensive COVID-19 strategy, including a historic vaccination program that has gotten 220 million Americans fully vaccinated, over 100 million people a booster shot, and made vaccines free, widely available and convenient—daily COVID-19 deaths are down 90 percent since he took office. COVID-19 vaccines remain the single-most […]
Why the Gym is Risky for COVID-19, and Tips for Keeping Safe
COVID-19 has been frustrating for gym rats. Even before scientists knew much about this particular virus, it was pretty clear that breathing heavily in a confined space with lots of other people around doing the same was an easy way to catch a respiratory illness, and gyms were among the […]
COVID-19 Ethnicity subgroup: Interpreting differential health outcomes among minority ethnic groups in wave 1 and 2, 24 March 2021
Executive summary 1. It is clear from ONS quantitative studies that all minority ethnic groups in the UK have been at higher risk of mortality throughout the COVID-19 pandemic (high confidence). Data on wave 2 (1 September 2020 to 31 January 2021) shows a particular intensity in this pattern of […]
Amid COVID-19 pandemic, rates of ‘moral injury’ among health care workers similar to combat vets | 2022-05-15
Durham, NC — The rates of “moral injury” that health care workers experienced during the first year of COVID-19 pandemic was akin to those of U.S. military combat veterans, results of a recent study show. Researchers from Duke University, Vanderbilt University and the Department of Veterans Affairs define a “moral […]