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HOLYOKE The city has completed a COVID-19 antibody test study that has revealed, among other findings, that city residents identifying as Hispanic or Latino/Latina were nearly twice as likely as white residents to have contracted the. ....
Press reports indicate that a group of 116 retired civil servants from All India and Central Services that included former Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar, former Health Secretary K Sujatha Rao, former Foreign Secretary and ex-National Security Adviser Shivashankar Menon, former Adviser to the Prime Minister T K A Nair, et al. wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to provide: ....
Modern Healthcare Illustration / Getty Images Nurses greeted patients at the front of the clinic to take their temperature and asked if they had been exposed. There was a hand-washing station. Patients were safely distanced in the waiting room. Hand sanitizer and masks were readily available. Sanford Health s clinics in Ghana looked and operated like those in the U.S. But the surrounding communities lacked reliable internet service, a consistent vaccine supply and adequate distribution channels, said Tracy Bieber, director of clinical services for Sanford World Clinics, who just returned from Ghana Sunday. Telemedicine hasn t taken off like in New Zealand or the States because when you get into rural areas, they don t have very reliable internet, she said, adding that some of the clinics experience down time when connections intermittently drop. That s been a big hindrance. ....
India’s COVID-19 Crisis: Variants, Vaccines and Surges Live Q&A with K. “Vish” Viswanath, Director, Harvard Chan India Research Center, and Louise Ivers, Executive Director, MGH Center for Global Health Presented jointly with Reuters 12 pm ET Post your questions for the Q&A on: @ForumHSPH #coronavirus #COVID-19. Or email them to [email protected] This Q&A will stream on Facebook , YouTube, and on this web page. India is experiencing a catastrophic surge of coronavirus cases more than 22.66 million confirmed cases with more than 240,000 deaths. What can be done to help the situation in India, as well as in other countries, especially those with limited resources and low vaccination rates? In this live Q&A, K. “Vish” Viswanath, Director of the Harvard Chan India Research Center, and Louise Ivers, Executive Director of the MGH Center for Global Health, talk with Reuters’ Kate Kelland about the devastating situation in India and the lesson ....
Hospitals send COVID-19 relief to hard-hit India Modern Healthcare Illustration / Getty Images Several U.S. hospitals have stepped up to provide India s frontl-ine healthcare personnel with much-needed protective equipment during the current COVID-19 outbreak. Last week, suburban Chicago-based Edward-Elmhurst Health partnered with local social support organization India Hub to donate five pallets of personal protective equipment, including 3,500 isolation gowns, 6,000 N95 masks and 72,000 exam gloves to emergency relief groups in India like the Red Cross. We wanted to make a donation that can help individuals on the ground right now, said Colin Dalough, manager of community and government relations at Edward-Elmhurst. Whatever we can do in whatever limited capacity that we have from afar nevertheless we ll want to try and help those individuals from a humanitarian standpoint. ....