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subject: FDA authorizes Pfizer's Covid vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11
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subject: FDA authorizes Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine for kids 5 to 11
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subject: 'The blood of Jesus will not save you from Covid' – Cape Town church's bold pro-vaccine message
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subject: FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids 5 to 11
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subject: Supreme Court Allows Vaccine Mandate Without Religious Opt-Out
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subject: The Coronavirus Crisis: Cigarette sales went up last year for the first time in 20 years - Oct 27 2021
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subject: Pueblo hospitals are in 'divert status,' rotating patient intake as COVID-19 cases rising
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subject: Covid vaccines provide stronger immunity than past infection, CDC study finds
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subject: Court rules against religious exemption for New York healthcare workers vaccine mandate
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subject: Third COVID shot reduces hospitalization by 93%, mortality by 81%
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subject: Hundreds of Massachusetts state workers have been suspended or lost jobs due to vaccine mandate
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subject: Supreme Court declines to block Maine health care employee vaccine mandate
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subject: Supreme Court declines to block vaccine mandate for health workers in Maine
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subject: Supreme Court rejects religious exemptions for vaccine mandates in 6-3 Maine ruling
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subject: In 2005, Texas sharply reduced the provision of special education (education services that accommodate individuals with disabilities and special needs). The students who were denied access to special education had substantially lower rates of high school completion and college enrollment.
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subject: Greta Thunberg: Calls on banks to stop funding climate 'destruction'
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subject: As NYC COVID Vaccine Mandate Approaches, More Than 19,000 First Responders Remain Holdouts
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subject: Aurora borealis could be visible in wide swaths of continental US, Europe on Saturday because of large solar flare
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subject: New York state health care workers will no longer have religious exemption to Covid-19 vaccine mandate, court rules
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subject: United States: Donation of Additionnal 336,000 Doses of J&L COVID-19 Vaccine to Madagascar
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subject: New York firefighters suspended after threatening state senator's staff over vaccine mandate while on duty
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subject: United States Donates 1.4 Million More COVID-19 Pfizer Vaccines to Egypt
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subject: With coronavirus untamed, Russia suffers deadliest September since World War II
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subject: Israeli study: COVID booster shots 92% effective at preventing serious illness
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subject: Facing Mandate, 15,000 NYC Municipal Workers Get COVID Vaccines. But Twice As Many Holdouts Remain
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subject: Probationary Mass. State Police trooper Kristopher Carr had 6 or 7 alcoholic drinks before Boston crash that killed Winthrop man, has been terminated, DA says
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subject: Study: Nearly all severely allergic people tolerate COVID vaccines
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subject: Vaccination offers more protection against Covid than prior infection, a C.D.C. study suggests.
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subject: A skin patch for administering COVID-19 vaccines gives greater immune protection than traditional injections, according to a study in mice.
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subject: U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Religious Challenge To Maine Vaccine Mandate
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subject: Covid-19 has killed more people in the US than HIV/Aids did in 40 years
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subject: Black Lives Matter Plaza Is Now a Permanent Installation
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subject: Marjorie Taylor Greene is 'legitimately nuts', says Adam Schiff
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subject: LA Sheriff Warns Of 'Mass Exodus' Of Deputies Because of Vaccine Mandate
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subject: There Could Be a Possible Coca-Cola Shortage, CEO Reveals
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subject: S. Korea: New virus cases over 2,100 for 3rd day ahead of lifting of virus curbs
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subject: Sixth batch of Japan-donated COVID-19 vaccine doses arrive in Taiwan
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subject: Gov. Ricketts bars state agencies from complying with President Biden's vaccine mandate | KHGI
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subject: House panel opens inquiry into online businesses over 'questionable' coronavirus treatments and misinformation
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subject: Chicago man awarded more than $25 million for wrongful conviction after 22 years in prison
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subject: At least 89% of vaccinated American adults will qualify for Covid-19 booster shots
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subject: China's COVID-19 outbreak developing rapidly, health official says
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subject: U.S. Military Donates COVID-19 Vaccine Cold Storage Units to the Armed Forces of the Philippines
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subject: Nearly everyone in Iran infected by coronavirus at some point concludes study
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subject: Nicaragua thanks U.S. for pandemic donations, despite tense relations - Nicaragua on Thursday thanked the United States — with which it has a strained relationship — for donating a batch of 305,370 doses of Pfizer vaccines against covid-19 through the international Covax mechanism.
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subject: Pro-vaccine Fox News host receives support from CNN anchor over death threats
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subject: US Donates 9.6 Million Additional COVID Vaccine Doses to Pakistan
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body:

We are writing to you on behalf of the millions around the world struggling to survive the COVID-19 pandemic far from home. Some have been forced to flee wars, conflict, persecution and human rights violations. Others are on the move to escape socioeconomic hardship or the consequences of climate change.

As strangers far from home, many are at risk of exclusion or neglect. Owing to their living situation, many face barriers accessing vaccinations, testing, treatment, care, and even reliable information.

It is a stark reality that some of the world's poorest countries shoulder the greatest responsibility for supporting displaced people and other people on the move. They need a reliable and adequate supply of vaccines and other critical supplies to stabilize their fragile and over-burdened health systems, to help save the lives of their citizens, migrants, as well as refugees and other displaced people they host.

Yet the current vaccine equity gap between wealthier and low resource countries demonstrates a disregard for the lives of the world's poorest and most vulnerable. For every 100 people in high-income countries, 133 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, while in low-income countries, only 4 doses per 100 people have been administered.

Vaccine inequity is costing lives every day, and continues to place everyone at risk. History and science make it clear: coordinated action with equitable access to public health resources is the only way to face down a global public health scourge like COVID-19. We need a strong, collective push to save lives, reduce suffering and ensure a sustainable global recovery.

And while vaccines are a very powerful tool, they're not the only tool. Tests are needed to know where the virus is, treatments including dexamethasone and medical oxygen are needed to save lives, and tailored public health measures are needed to prevent transmission.

As the leaders of the world's largest economies, you have the power and responsibility to help stem the pandemic by expanding access to vaccines and other tools for the people and places where these are in shortest supply.

We welcome the fact that this weekend's summit in Rome will call for "courage and ambition" to tackle some of the greatest challenges of our time, and specifically the need to recover from the pandemic and overcome inequality. We collectively call on you, G20 leaders, to commit to:

  1. Increase vaccine supplies for the world's poorest: We call on the world's leading economies to fully fund and implement the Strategic Plan and Budget for the ACT Accelerator, and to distribute vaccines, tests and treatments where they are needed most. If we are to recover from the pandemic, we must — at a minimum — meet the targets to vaccinate 40 per cent of the world's population by year-end – and 70 per cent globally by mid-2022.
  2. Ensure access to vaccines for all people on the move: We call on every country to ensure that everyone on its territory regardless of legal status – including refugees, migrants, internally displaced people, asylum-seekers, and others on the move – have access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatment for COVID-19. They should adopt concrete measures to remove barriers to vaccination for everyone on their territory — for example the need for specific documents, geographical barriers,  the requirement in some settings that health care seekers are reported to immigration authorities, high fees — and fight misinformation that fuels vaccine hesitancy.
  3. Support low- and middle-income countries to combat COVID-19 with all available means: Low- and middle-income countries need comprehensive support – financial, political, technical, logistical – to vaccinate people quickly and effectively to expand access to tests and treatments, to implement tailored public health measures, and to build more resilient health systems to prepare for, prevent, detect and respond rapidly to future health emergencies.

We urge you to take swift action to ease the pandemic's devastating human toll.

Yours faithfully,

Filippo Grandi
UN High Commissioner for Refugees  

António Vitorino
IOM Director General   

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
WHO Director-General      
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We are writing to you on behalf of the millions around the world struggling to survive the COVID-19 pandemic far from home. Some have been forced to flee wars, conflict, persecution and human rights violations. Others are on the move to escape socioeconomic hardship or the consequences of climate change.

As strangers far from home, many are at risk of exclusion or neglect. Owing to their living situation, many face barriers accessing vaccinations, testing, treatment, care, and even reliable information.

It is a stark reality that some of the world's poorest countries shoulder the greatest responsibility for supporting displaced people and other people on the move. They need a reliable and adequate supply of vaccines and other critical supplies to stabilize their fragile and over-burdened health systems, to help save the lives of their citizens, migrants, as well as refugees and other displaced people they host.

Yet the current vaccine equity gap between wealthier and low resource countries demonstrates a disregard for the lives of the world's poorest and most vulnerable. For every 100 people in high-income countries, 133 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, while in low-income countries, only 4 doses per 100 people have been administered.

Vaccine inequity is costing lives every day, and continues to place everyone at risk. History and science make it clear: coordinated action with equitable access to public health resources is the only way to face down a global public health scourge like COVID-19. We need a strong, collective push to save lives, reduce suffering and ensure a sustainable global recovery.

And while vaccines are a very powerful tool, they're not the only tool. Tests are needed to know where the virus is, treatments including dexamethasone and medical oxygen are needed to save lives, and tailored public health measures are needed to prevent transmission.

As the leaders of the world's largest economies, you have the power and responsibility to help stem the pandemic by expanding access to vaccines and other tools for the people and places where these are in shortest supply.

We welcome the fact that this weekend's summit in Rome will call for "courage and ambition" to tackle some of the greatest challenges of our time, and specifically the need to recover from the pandemic and overcome inequality. We collectively call on you, G20 leaders, to commit to:

  1. Increase vaccine supplies for the world's poorest: We call on the world's leading economies to fully fund and implement the Strategic Plan and Budget for the ACT Accelerator, and to distribute vaccines, tests and treatments where they are needed most. If we are to recover from the pandemic, we must — at a minimum — meet the targets to vaccinate 40 per cent of the world's population by year-end – and 70 per cent globally by mid-2022.
  2. Ensure access to vaccines for all people on the move: We call on every country to ensure that everyone on its territory regardless of legal status – including refugees, migrants, internally displaced people, asylum-seekers, and others on the move – have access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatment for COVID-19. They should adopt concrete measures to remove barriers to vaccination for everyone on their territory — for example the need for specific documents, geographical barriers,  the requirement in some settings that health care seekers are reported to immigration authorities, high fees — and fight misinformation that fuels vaccine hesitancy.
  3. Support low- and middle-income countries to combat COVID-19 with all available means: Low- and middle-income countries need comprehensive support – financial, political, technical, logistical – to vaccinate people quickly and effectively to expand access to tests and treatments, to implement tailored public health measures, and to build more resilient health systems to prepare for, prevent, detect and respond rapidly to future health emergencies.

We urge you to take swift action to ease the pandemic's devastating human toll.

Yours faithfully,

Filippo Grandi
UN High Commissioner for Refugees  

António Vitorino
IOM Director General   

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
WHO Director-General      
Logo-WHO

 

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