The 2020 U.S. elections had the highest turnout in more than a century, despite the devastating pandemic and the efforts of the then president Donald Trump and his allies for undermining confidence in the voting system. Despite the large turnout, it was declared the safest choice in the history of USA. Yet several states have […]
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Post-COVID Global Recovery Brings Health and Climate Threats, Report Says
Recovery after pandemic, fueled by fossil fuels, will have the consequences of worsening food insecurity and climate crisis and health that threaten millions of people, according to the report The Lancet Countdown, of the medical journal The Lancet. The publication is the largest annual study of the health impacts of climate change. It determined that […]
Latin America may take more than five years to recover from pandemic, says IMF
The economy of Latin America and the Caribbean may take “more than five years” to regain pre-pandemic levels, which have substantially increased poverty and left an “increasingly precarious situation for the middle class,” said the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The acting director of the IMF’s Western Hemisphere Department, Nigel Chalk, commented today on the regional […]
IMF sees tighter monetary policy in Latin America even as economies struggle
Interest rate increases would continue in Latin America as the region reacts to inflationary pressures, even as economies are operating below their potential, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF). “These interest rate hikes are likely to continue in many countries in the coming months, and if there are signs that inflation expectations are less well […]
Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Highly Effective in Adolescents
The vaccine COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech is highly effective in teenagers, according to a study focused on delta variant SARS-CoV-2 and showing that in fully vaccinated youth the risk of symptomatic disease decreased 93% compared to unvaccinated. The work is published in the magazine “The New England Journal of Medicine” with data on the adolescent population of […]
Restricting travel by type of vaccine could be discrimination, warns PAHO
Updated 10/20/2021 05:40 pm Countries should allow entry to vaccinated travelers, regardless of their type of vaccine to avoid discrimination and facilitate business, said a senior official of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). With rising vaccination rates, countries are faced with new questions about how to contain the spread of COVID-19 while easing travel […]
The ILO urges the universalization of social protection programs in Latin America
The International Labor Organization (ILO) urged Latin America to expand the coverage of its social protection programs to avoid amplifying the effects of upcoming crises, as has already happened with the pandemic of the COVID-19, where it was the most economically affected region in the world. Before the pandemic, only 56% of the inhabitants of […]
Vladimir Putin gives Russians a week off to curb the pandemic
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, today gave Russians a week of paid vacation from October 30 to November 7 to stop the advance of the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed its lives in the last 24 hours of more than a thousand people, while infections exceed 30,000 daily. “Now it is especially important to […]
COVID-19: pregnant women depend more on the second vaccine to achieve full immunity
The pregnant women depend more on a second dose of the vaccine against the COVID-19 to achieve full immunity, according to a study published in the journal “Science Traslational Medicine.” This and other work, which appears in the same publication, find that pregnancy can affect both the way the immune system responds to COVID-19 infections […]
The big brands of vehicles put the batteries to produce batteries
Major automakers are accelerating their investments in USA in facilities for the production of electric vehicles, a market estimated to be worth $ 329.57 billion in North America by 2028. General Motors (GM), Ford, Stellantis and Toyota, among the main automakers in North America, have literally stepped up to launch dozens of new models of […]