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April 19, 2021 Ensuring COVID-19 vaccine access for refugee and displaced populations, and addressing health inequities, is vital for an effective pandemic response. Yet, vaccine allocation and distribution has been neither equitable nor inclusive, despite that global leaders have stressed this as a critical aspect to globally overcoming the pandemic, according to a paper published by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Read Leave No-one Behind: Ensuring Access to COVID-19 vaccines for Refugee and Displaced Populations in the journal
Nature Medicine.
As of April 1st, high and upper-middle-income countries received 86 percent of the vaccine doses delivered worldwide, while only 0.1 percent of doses have been delivered in low-income countries. Worldwide, over 80 percent of refugees and nearly all internally displaced persons are hosted by low and middle-income countries - nations at the end of the line for COVID-19 vaccine doses.
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Peter Coffey, an advertising copywriter, has used cash just once since the Covid-19 pandemic started to buy a used car.
When the health crisis began, he set up his smartphone’s tap-to-pay function with a credit card. “Some places weren’t accepting cash. I just got into the habit of never even thinking about cash,” he said.
Mr. Coffey, 28 years old, who is working remotely from Tucson, Ariz., said he expects to continue using touchless payment technologies after the pandemic. “It’s great, the amount of times I’ve gone to the store and realized I don’t have my credit card. It’s fine I just tap with my phone.”
A-State Student Team Selected for NASA Project Funding
12/17/2020
A-State Science Support System includes (top row, from left) Benjamin Whitfield (team lead, electrical engineering); Katherine Willis (biology), Claire Greene (biology); (middle) Hannah Seats (biology), Mason Rhodes (mechanical engineering), Maureen Dolan (faculty adviser, ABI & Department of Biological Sciences, molecular biology); (bottom) Jacob Oster (mechanical engineering), Landon Perdue (mechanical engineering), Shea Harris (co-adviser, ABI outreach coordinator).
JONESBORO – While most students were preparing to start finals late last week, a team of Arkansas State University students were preparing for a different kind of test . . . a test of their creativity, scientific curiosity, and ingenuity.
NASA, as in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was assigning the grade.
A-State Science Support Team partnering with NASA for space station program The A-State Science Support System was selected by NASAâs Office of STEM Engagement as one of five in the country to be carried out in 2022 on the International Space Station. (Source: Arkansas State University) By Region 8 Newsdesk | December 17, 2020 at 9:30 PM CST - Updated December 17 at 9:38 PM
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - Some students were studying for finals at Arkansas State University on Monday afternoon, but some were waiting for important news.
The A-State Science Support System was selected by NASAâs Office of STEM Engagement as one of five in the country to be carried out in 2022 on the International Space Station.
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