The Washington Post, April 9th 2021 New confirmed cases of the coronavirus remain high and near their January peak, as the world struggles with unequal vaccine rollout and new threats posed by a variety of fast spreading virus variants. After more than a year of the pandemic, over 2.8 million…

APSF — Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation January 27, 2021 Kashmira S. Chawla, MD MSc,†; Alexander W. Peters, MD, MPH,†; Holden K. Groves, MD; Keith Denison, MS, CRNA; Natalia S. Ivascu, MD; David S. Wang MD; Oliver PF Panzer, MD; Zachary A. Turnbull, MD, MBA, MS Summary To meet the exponential increase…

Lockdowns tend to make poor people poorer IGHI, 6 April 2021 David Nabarro Series: The impact of pandemic — inequities Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the social injustices that are holding back equity in health and care. People living in poverty and deprivation are some of the hardest to reach and easiest to leave behind. This…

Converted operating rooms and shuffled patients: How NYC scrambled to turn 1,600 ICU beds into 3,500 to care for the sickest coronavirus patients Business Insider, Apr 9, 2020, 12:59 PM Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer and Jeremy Berke New York City more than doubled its ICU capacity in a few short weeks to handle the crush of coronavirus patients. Before the outbreak began, studies show the city had around 1,600 ICU beds. …

With coronavirus mutations pitted against vaccinations in a global arms race, we may never go back to normal. Bloomberg, March 24, 2021 By Andreas Kluth Series: Preparing for the next pandemic Key messages: For the past year, an assumption … — has informed almost all our thinking about the pandemic: At some…

With infections soaring and the economy weakening again, the president is struggling to keep his government together Financial Times, April 3, 2021 5:00 pm by Michael Stott in London, Michael Pooler and Bryan Harris in São Paulo Series: Performance assessment in pandemic response — Brazil The statement from Brazil’s defence ministry was a compact two sentences, but it detonated with the explosive power of a bomb.

Gates Notes, March 31, 2021 6 minute read By Bill Gates I’ve spent a lot of time over the last year meeting with colleagues at our foundation and around the world about ways to test for, treat, and prevent COVID-19. …

TIME, APRIL 3, 2021 7:00 AM EDT Series: Impact of the pandemic — Homeless When West Virginia declared a state of emergency to arrest the coronavirus, the social network that aids the homeless froze along with everything else. Charities that offered daily meals and warming stations shut down. Volunteers, many…

No total R$ 185,6 milhões foram obtidos a partir das doações de todas as companhias envolvidas — Vale, iFood, Magazine Luiza, B2W, Minerva, Ambev, BTG Pactual e JBS. A fábrica está em construção desde o início de novembro e abrigará produção nacional da vacina em 11.000 m², quase quatro vezes…