SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Caribbean is hunting for visitors and vaccines to jump-start the stalled economy in one of the world’s most tourism-dependent regions. Clear waters and warm sand attracted a record 31.5 million tourists to the Caribbean in 2019, but visits plummeted by an estimated 60 percent to 80 percent as the pandemic hit last year. That's devastating for a region … [Read more...]
Cutting edge imaging technology provides new insights into schizophrenia
Use of synchrotron radiation nanotomography has allowed researchers to produce uncorrupted 3D images of neurons and blood vessels for the purposes of studying schizophrenia’s effect on brain tissue. Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder which can cause a range of debilitating cognitive and psychiatric symptoms, such as paranoid delusions, depression, disordered thinking, and auditory and … [Read more...]
Is vaccine tourism ethical?
News is emerging about wealthy or powerful individuals buying their way to the front of the vaccine queue. A few travel and lifestyle organisations and medical travel destinations are also offering medical tourism vaccinations for those who are rich. But can some countries develop vaccine tourism if their local population is already protected against Covid-19? UK travel forecasting … [Read more...]
Coronavirus cases in the Caribbean to date: 529,397
Confirmed Caribbean coronavirus cases as of March 1: Dominican Republic- 239,617 cases, 3100 deaths, 191,338 recoveries Puerto Rico- 92,708 cases, 2037 deaths Cuba- 49,779 cases, 322 deaths, 45,242 recovered Jamaica- 23,263 cases, 422 deaths, … [Read more...]
As Pandemic Eases Elsewhere, Some Caribbean States Face Worst Outbreaks Yet
KINGSTON (Reuters) - In Jamaica, which won praise for containing its coronavirus outbreak last year, patients now overflow into corridors on chairs and stretchers in some hospitals, prompting the Caribbean nation to open three emergency field hospitals. While global new infections start to decline, a handful of countries across the Caribbean, including the larger islands of Jamaica and Cuba, … [Read more...]
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