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Epidemiology, not geopolitics, should guide COVID-19 vaccine donations

With COVID-19 vaccine supplies shifting from scarcity to abundance in high-income settings, such as Canada, the EU, the USA, and the UK, the June 11–13, 2021, Group of Seven (G7) summit in Cornwall, UK, is the time when leaders from those countries should act on their promises to send surplus COVID-19 vaccine supplies to the many other countries where doses remain scarce. Vaccine donations are … [Read more...]

Shetty aiming to build Cayman medical school

[Reprinted: Cayman Compass,  12-14-2020] Producing homegrown doctors and health workers has become a national security issue in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Dr. Devi Shetty, the celebrated surgeon behind Health City Cayman Islands. Shetty said his group still aims to build a medical school in Grand Cayman that he believes could help train and inspire the next generation of … [Read more...]

Jamaican doctors sitting in limbo

[Reprinted: Jamaica Observer, 9-7-2020] Approximately 50 doctors who studied overseas and have returned to the island to practise have been left in limbo, after learning that the mandatory orientation process set aside for them has been delayed “until further notice”. The medical practitioners, several of whom studied in Russia and China, have been left in the cold as the Ministry of Health … [Read more...]

Trinidad Warned to Brace for Upsurge in COVID Cases

[Reprinted: CNW, 8-12-2020] PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The technical director of the Epidemiology Division at the Ministry of Health, Dr Avery Hinds, has warned that Trinidad and Tobago should brace itself for an upsurge in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases given the increased movement of people over the past few days. “As you have seen there has been a fair amount of gathering and movement in the … [Read more...]

COVID-19 in Caribbean small island states: lessons learnt from extreme weather events

[Reprinted: The Lancet Global Health, 7/2/2020] The UN recognises 58 small island developing states, with 29 in the Caribbean. The World Bank classifies most of the Caribbean islands as middle-income or high-income countries, and the UN Human Development Index is generally categorised as high across the region (2018 values range between 0·7 and 0·8). Despite these positive development … [Read more...]

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