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Richland Newhope donates books to first graders
MANSFIELD - With the ongoing concerns of COVID-19, Richland Newhope was not able to celebrate March Awareness in the traditional manner. One of this year’s awareness activities included a book distribution to celebrate Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month with the local schools.
Richland Newhope distributed a book about inclusion to public and private first-grade students in Richland County. With the help from Scholastic, Richland County Youth and Family Council and United Way’s Big Red Bookshelf, Newhope was able to distribute 1,400 copies of the book Strictly No Elephants, written by Lisa Mantchev.
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China Has All It Needs to Vaccinate Millions, Except Any Approved Vaccines
Across the country, local governments plan to inoculate 50 million people against the coronavirus by early next year. But the vaccines have not officially been approved.
Sinovac, a private Beijing-based vaccine maker, has produced millions of doses of its vaccine but has yet to receive government approval. Credit.Thomas Peter/Reuters
Everything, that is, except much proof that their vaccines work.
Unlike their Western competitors, most Chinese companies have not disclosed data from late-stage clinical trials that would show whether their vaccines are effective; just one, the state-owned Sinopharm, has released findings, which it did on Wednesday with minimal details. Regulators in China have not officially approved any of them.
Unlike their Western competitors, the Chinese companies have not disclosed data from late-stage clinical trials that would show whether their vaccines are effective, and regulators in China have not officially approved them.
That has not deterred local governments across the country, which have begun an ambitious vaccination campaign. The goal is to inoculate 50 million people - roughly the population of Colombia - by the middle of February, before the Chinese New Year holiday, when hundreds of millions of people are expected to travel.
China, where the virus first emerged a year ago, is going to great - and scientifically unorthodox - lengths to prevent a resurgence of the outbreak. While Beijing has not officially announced the vaccine target, the government has signalled the roll-out will be managed in much the same way as the outbreak, through a top-down approach that can mobilise thousands of workers to produce, ship and administer the shots.