Vaccine deserts: Some countries have no COVID-19 jabs at all
N DJAMENA, Chad (AP) â At the small hospital where Dr. Oumaima Djarma works in Chad s capital, there are no debates over which coronavirus vaccine is the best.
There are simply no vaccines at all.
Not even for the doctors and nurses like her, who care for COVID-19 patients in Chad, one of the least-developed nations in the world where about one third of the country is engulfed by the Sahara desert.
âI find it unfair and unjust, and it is something that saddens me,â the 33-year-old infectious diseases doctor says. âI donât even have that choice. The first vaccine that comes along that has authorization, I will take it.â
WINDHAM, N.H. (AP) Meetings of the Windham Board of Selectmen are usually as sleepy as they sound a handful of residents from the New Hampshire town, a discussion of ambulance fees, maybe a drainage study.
Major US pipeline halts operations after ransomware attack
WASHINGTON (AP) â The operator of a major pipeline system that transports fuel across the East Coast said Saturday it had been victimized by a ransomware attack and had halted all pipeline operations to deal with the threat. The attack is unlikely to affect gasoline supply and prices unless it leads to a prolonged shutdown of the pipeline, experts said.
Colonial Pipeline did not say what was demanded or who made the demand. Ransomware attacks are typically carried out by criminal hackers who scramble data, paralyzing victim networks, and demand a large payment to decrypt it.
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by The Associated Press
Last Updated May 9, 2021 at 12:11 am EDT
Major US pipeline halts operations after ransomware attack
WASHINGTON (AP) The operator of a major pipeline system that transports fuel across the East Coast said Saturday it had been victimized by a ransomware attack and had halted all pipeline operations to deal with the threat. The attack is unlikely to affect gasoline supply and prices unless it leads to a prolonged shutdown of the pipeline, experts said.
Colonial Pipeline did not say what was demanded or who made the demand. Ransomware attacks are typically carried out by criminal hackers who scramble data, paralyzing victim networks, and demand a large payment to decrypt it.
May 09, 2021 - 8:04 PM
Vaccine deserts: Some countries have no COVID-19 jabs at all
N DJAMENA, Chad (AP) â At the small hospital where Dr. Oumaima Djarma works in Chad s capital, there are no debates over which coronavirus vaccine is the best.
There are simply no vaccines at all.
Not even for the doctors and nurses like her, who care for COVID-19 patients in Chad, one of the least-developed nations in the world where about one third of the country is engulfed by the Sahara desert.
âI find it unfair and unjust, and it is something that saddens me,â the 33-year-old infectious diseases doctor says. âI donât even have that choice. The first vaccine that comes along that has authorization, I will take it.â