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After being co-opted into the fight against the COVID-19 induced pandemic, the Indian Armed Forces instituted (early May 2021) a number of steps to assist the country. The primary, over-arching measure was the launch of Operation CO-JEET, an integrated, tri-Services effort under Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Medical) Lieutenant General (Dr) Madhuri Kanitkar. Op CO-JEET envisions utilising the personnel and resources of all three Services (Army, Navy, Air Force) to provide assistance to the civilian administration in managing the pandemic now ravaging India.
As expected, there is clear coherence in the efforts of the India Armed Forces, with the size, capacity, capability and core competency of each Service being utilised optimally, in conjunction with the DRDO, in the cause of the nation.
May 12, 2021 05:15 AM
Chicago prepares to offer vaccines to teens • AMA acknowledges racist past in health equity plan • DuPage Medical names new president
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Bloomberg
CHICAGO, COOK COUNTY PLAN TO OPEN VACCINE SITES TO TEENS THIS WEEK: The CDC is expected to give the final approval of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine shots for use in children ages 12 to 15 today, paving the way for the city to open up its vaccination sites to youth on Thursday.
While COVID cases in children are normally more mild, they can still spread the virus. Public health officials have pointed to a growing proportion of U.S. COVID cases among youth as more adults get vaccinated.
Local Organizations Going All Out To Combat COVID Crisis In India
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HICKSVILLE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – The COVID crisis continues to surge out of control in India.
With more than 350,000 daily new cases, the nation is on pace to see more than one million deaths by midsummer.
Here at home, Long Island’s South Asian community is responding.
As CBS2’s Carolyn Gusoff reports, Sikh, Hindu and Muslim prayers in Hicksville, home to New York’s fastest growing Indian-American community, are addressing an urgent need they know prayers alone can’t fix.
Adobe
Saying it needs to “pivot from ambivalence to urgent action” and hold itself accountable for deeply embedded health inequities, the American Medical Association has vowed in a new strategic plan to use its influence as one of the world’s most powerful medical organizations to fight and dismantle white supremacy and racism in the U.S. health care system and within its own walls.
The 83-page report on racial justice and health equity, which is the culmination of two years of work and was scheduled to be released on Wednesday, was obtained by STAT and has now been released by the AMA. By pledging to ground all of the AMA’s work in racial justice, the plan marks a major change for a 174-year-old organization marred by a racist history of excluding Black physicians for more than a century. More recently, critics say the AMA, which the report describes as “rooted in white patriarchy and affluent supremacy,” has paid scant attention to how racism has affected medicine
As virus explodes in India, Northeast Ohio organizations quietly step up
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A wreath lies on the coffin of a COVID-19 victim before his cremation in Jammu, India, Friday, April 30, 2021. Indian scientists appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to publicly release virus data that would allow them to save lives as coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
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CLEVELAND â About a year ago, America locked down, masked up and embarked on a grueling year of death, sickness, social isolation, stymied learning and economic hardship. The idea was to avoid the worst from coming to pass and having our health-care system overwhelmed. We avoided that outcome. India has not.