“Today we come together to rejoice over a historic success for public health, the certification of wild poliovirus eradication in the African region,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, during a live-streamed event. “The end of wild polio in Africa is a great day,” said Tedros, …
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Investors struggling with the shape of the recovery of Covid-19 have the same blind spot as they did after the financial crisis: They do not know how inflation works. The S&P 500 hit new highs this month, despite the devastating effects of the pandemic. However, market expectations of inflation returned …
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Jeff Lewis is recovering in hospital after a neck operation. Megan Weaver, Lewis’ co-host on the SiriusXM show “Jeff Lewis Live”, told fans via Instagram on Thursday, “He made it!” Posting a photo of Lewis, 50, in the hospital with a neck bridge, she added: “Thank God I still have …
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As of Friday morning, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation model at the University of Washington is projecting that 317,312 people could die from the disease – marking an increase of about 8,000 deaths from an earlier estimate the model projected one week ago . Since January, U.S. health …
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LONDON / BRUSSELS / GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization will receive a flood of promises of support for its COVID-19 vaccine plan for all next week. FILE PHOTO: An employee is seen in the Reference Center for Special Immunobiologists (CRIE) of the Federal University of Sao Paulo (Unifesp) …
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