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The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is expected to get emergency use authorization from the Food & Drug Administration. And according to Business Insider, the Pentagon is working with military precision to deliver the vaccine to US troops. The Pentagon announced plans on Wednesday to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine to US military personnel, starting with almost 44,000 doses. Initially, vaccination will be voluntary, as is standard practice with emergency use authorizations. However, it could eventually become mandatory.
Vaccinating 20% of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean against covid-19 will cost more than USD 2 billion, according to the Assistant Director of the Pan American Health Organization, Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr, during a press briefing regarding Covid-19 crisis. SOUNDBITE
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants Americans to know: COVID-19 is nothing like the seasonal flu. According to Gizmodo, a new CDC report reveals people hospitalized with COVID-19 are over five times more likely to die than those hospitalized for influenza. Also, the risk of serious complications like pneumonia and shock is significantly higher from the novel coronavirus than from the flu. Gizmodo reports that compared to flu patients, COVID-19 sufferers are at increased risk for 17 respiratory and nonrespiratory complications. They are also 19 times more likely to develop acute respiratory distress syndrome, a life-threatening condition that fills the lungs with fluid. Heart inflammation, pneumonia, liver failure, shock, blood infections, and brain bleeds are among the other complications more likely in COVID-19 patients. COVID-19 patients also stay in the hospital longer than flu patients, taking approximately 8.6 days versus three days.
Bogota, Oct 14 (EFE).- The integrity of electoral rights, creating guarantees for voters and not putting people's lives at risk from the coronavirus are some of the challenges facing Latin America, the region hardest hit by the pandemic and which in the coming months must hold a number of elections amid profound political and social polarization.LEANDRO QUERIDO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ELECTORAL TRANSPARENCY:"This decade is key for Latin America because it is starting in an extremely complex situation, and there are three things at risk.Number one, there is the risk of having another lost decade in terms of the economy. Number two: There is the risk of having devastating decade-long setbacks in human development and in some countries even two decades in terms of poverty, inequality and unemployment. And number three: This entire context could create a deterioration in the quality of democracy and even a setback in democratic terms."
Bogota, Jul 20 (EFE) .- Despite not being the group hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Latin American youth were still greatly affected in terms of their mental health and opportunities.SHOT LIST: YOUNG PEOPLE DOING OUT OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES IN A PARK IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.
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