ON SUNDAY, Tottenham Hotspur take on Manchester City at Wembley in the League Cup final, 40 years on from their fabled encounter in the 100th FA Cup final, the night Ricky Villa slalomed his way through the opposition defence to score perhaps the most famous Cup final winner.
That 1981 encounter is also remembered for the Cup final song written by Dave Peacock, one-half of pop duo Chas and Dave which centred around Spurs’ other Argentinian World Cup-winner Osvaldo Ardiles and Ossie’s Dream to play at Wembley, “in de Cup for Totting-ham.”
The song begins with the immortal line: “Ossie’s going to Wembley, his knees have gone all trembley” as Peacock knew that Ardiles, signed by Tottenham in 1978 after winning the World Cup with Argentina, dreamed of playing at Wembley Stadium.
Former Pima County health director reflects on a year of COVID
Former Pima County health director reflects on a year of COVID By Megan McNeil | March 12, 2021 at 7:46 PM MST - Updated March 12 at 7:46 PM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Former Pima County Health Department Director Dr. Bob England came out of retirement to serve as the director in 2019.
With plans to retire soon after, when COVID-19 hit the state and county, he stayed at the department through June 2020.
“Just do right by each other, so thank you very much for that,” said England in his farwell.
It was a hard year for many, including him. The world had no idea how things would evolve. In the beginning when much was unknown, England was quoted downplaying the severity of the virus.
Biden Administration Seeks More Doses Plus Help to Inject Bloomberg 25/01/2021 Elise Young and Josh Wingrove
(Bloomberg) The Biden administration said the U.S. needs more people to administer Covid-19 vaccinations, in addition to the doses themselves and places for people to get them.
“This is a multifaceted challenge it’s not just about having supply,” Jen Psaki, press secretary to President Joe Biden, said at a White House briefing Monday. The administration is calling for hiring 100,000 public-health workers in part to ensure that there are more vaccinators, she said. “It’s also about having more people who can physically put shots into the arms of Americans, and it’s about ensuring we have places that that can be done.”
Here comes the vaccine army, with new-to-the-needle volunteers
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Cars lined up along the roadway to get a vaccination in Wantagh, New York on Jan. 14.Bloomberg photo by Al Bello
U.S. taxpayers have spent at least $12.4 billion for private companies to develop covid-19 vaccines. Now they re turning to an army of hypodermic-wielding volunteers, some with little practical experience, to help immunize 330 million Americans.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is relaxing rules to allow podiatrists, dentists and pharmacy students to give shots. In Colorado, Governor Jared Polis is asking for help from chiropractors and optometrists. Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey are recruiting health-care retirees to fill shifts at stadiums, vacant department stores and other spaces repurposed as government-run vaccination megasites.