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Barbados rolls out its drive-thru vaccination centre without hitches

With over 14,000 persons receiving their first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine since the start of the National Vaccination Programme, authorities are confident Barbados is on target to having a significant percentage of its population protected against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.  That is according to the National Coordinator of the programme, Major David … [Read more...]

Sun, sand, shots: Caribbean seeks vaccines to revive economy

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...]

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