Health care policy proposals tend to aim at three major goals: improving quality of care, enhancing access to care and containing health care cost. Many experts believe progress toward one of these goals requires a tradeoff, with sacrifices for the other goals. For example, providing access to health care for more people may only be possible by either increasing health care cost or through cuts in … [Read more...]
Coronavirus cases in the Caribbean to date: 495,896
Confirmed Caribbean coronavirus cases as of today, February 15: Dominican Republic- 229,768 cases, 2944 deaths, 176,788 recoveries Puerto Rico- 90,429 cases, 1920 deaths Cuba- 38,289 cases, 266 deaths, 33,167 recovered Jamaica- 19,035 cases, 374 deaths, 12,593 recovered French Guiana- 16,456 cases, 80 deaths, 9995 recovered Belize- 12,145 cases, 313 deaths, … [Read more...]
Fast-Tracking Caribbean COVID-19 recovery and resilience
COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in 2021. BBC has reported that as of 1st of February 2021, more than 100 million people have been infected with the virus, 2.2 million people have died across nearly 200 countries. There are still over 382,000 new cases every day. Although both rich and poor countries have faced the full wrath of the pandemic, the difference is, the developed countries are … [Read more...]
More vaccination means less worry to travel – How the COVID-19 vaccines will impact Caribbean tourism
Like the rest of the Caribbean tourism industry, Jamaican hotelier Josef Forstmayr is closely watching the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines in the major markets in Europe and North America, hoping that enough people will be vaccinated to encourage a rapid return of large numbers of tourists to Caribbean shores. “The more of us that have been vaccinated, the less worried persons will be about … [Read more...]
Coronavirus cases in the Caribbean to date: 473,787
Confirmed Caribbean coronavirus cases as of February 6: Dominican Republic- 222,148 cases, 2801 deaths, 165,659 recoveries Puerto Rico- 88,352 cases, 1872 deaths Cuba- 32,011 cases, 233 deaths, 26,039 recovered Jamaica- 16,841 cases, 357 deaths, 12,225 … [Read more...]
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