地球,人間煉獄 CLXVIII (168期) :
U.S. to spend billions on vaccines |
The White House, under pressure to increase the supply of Covid vaccines to poor nations, plans to invest billions of dollars to expand manufacturing capacity. |
The U.S. seeks to produce at least one billion doses a year beginning in the second half of 2022, part of a broad plan to address vaccine needs overseas and domestically and prepare for future pandemics. |
The money was set aside as part of the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package from March. W.H.O. officials and other experts have criticized the U.S. for rolling out boosters before many people in lower-income countries have gotten their first doses. |
It comes as the administration also plans to spend $5 billion on Pfizer’s new Covid pill and billions more on rapid over-the-counter tests, to build a multifaceted treatment framework. |
中國防疫人員撲殺寵物犬震驚民眾
在中國對新冠疫情堅持採取「清零」政策之際,一段防疫人員毆打一隻柯基寵物犬的視頻激起了民眾的憤怒。當地官員稱,現場工作人員在未與主人充分溝通的情況下將寵物狗進行了「無害化處置」。
Austria's surge in infections means 20% of intensive-care beds are currently occupied by covid patients. The country has one of western Europe’s lowest vaccination rates: just 72.1% among those over 12 have two doses
奧地利感染人數激增意味著目前有 20% 的重症監護病床被新冠患者佔用。 該國是西歐疫苗接種率最低的國家之一:在 12 歲以上的人群中,只有 72.1% 的人接種了兩次疫苗 google
Possible side effect of COVID rules: incomplete death counts
“When governments ask citizens to make sacrifices,” says Business School researcher, “they’re inclined to overstate the positive effects of those sacrifices.”
COVID規則的可能副作用:死亡人數不完整 “當政府要求公民做出犧牲時,”商學院研究員說,“他們傾向於誇大這些犧牲的積極影響。”
To explain the wide variation in underreporting, the researchers speculated that countries with more stringent mitigation policies, such as those requiring masks and social distancing, would see higher rates of underreporting. “More stringent policies might put public pressure on politicians to underreport deaths, just to show that their policies are working,” says Kobilov.
"IF THE NUMBERS AREN’T ACCURATE, THEN WE CAN’T ACCURATELY IDENTIFY WHAT MITIGATION EFFORTS ARE BEST."
為了解釋漏報的巨大差異,研究人員推測,那些採取更嚴格緩解政策的國家,例如要求戴口罩和保持社交距離的國家,漏報率會更高。 “更嚴格的政策可能會向政客施加公眾壓力,要求他們少報死亡人數,只是為了表明他們的政策正在奏效,”科比洛夫說。
“如果數字不准確,那麼我們就無法準確地確定最好的緩解措施。”
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