Tag: Health care

Categories World

UNICEF boss pleads for an extra $1 BILLION in funding to support global Covid-19 vaccine rollout

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The executive director of UNICEF has said the agency needs a further $1 billion of funding to ensure it can supply Covid-19 vaccines through the COVAX program and support healthcare systems in the world’s poorest nations. … Read More >UNICEF boss pleads for an extra $1 BILLION in funding to support global Covid-19 vaccine rollout

Categories Russia

Even with pandemic and global economic downturn, Russian national debt lower than expected as country counts cost of coronavirus

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Despite record borrowing to shore up the country’s finances and fund its healthcare system during the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia has racked up far less national debt than first expected, a new economic analysis has claimed. … Read More >Even with pandemic and global economic downturn, Russian national debt lower than expected as country counts cost of coronavirus

Categories Russia

Advanced Western healthcare systems ‘collapsed’ during Covid-19 pandemic, Russia was better prepared to rapidly mobilize – Putin

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Russia did better than Western countries in mobilizing its healthcare system to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. That’s according to President Vladimir Putin, who called the response in the EU and the US a “collapse.” … Read More >Advanced Western healthcare systems ‘collapsed’ during Covid-19 pandemic, Russia was better prepared to rapidly mobilize – Putin

Categories Shows

Bernie Sanders’ son Levi: No excuse for not passing ‘Medicare For All’ under Joe Biden

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We speak to Levi Sanders, son of US Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. He discusses the need for ‘Medicare For All’ amid the coronavirus pandemic, why Joe Biden’s coziness with donors means he is not in touch with what is happening in America, Biden’s foreign policy direction and pledge to end support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen … Read More >Bernie Sanders’ son Levi: No excuse for not passing ‘Medicare For All’ under Joe Biden

Categories Health Videos

In Perm, doctors helped an American patient who was considered hopeless in the United States

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US citizen Alan Spencer suffers from a rare form of muscle atrophy. American doctors believed that in his case, “medicine is powerless.” However, after Alan managed to come to Russia at the height of the coronavirus pandemic and receive treatment in a Perm clinic, his condition improved markedly. Now the man can walk independently and plans to do everything so that his compatriots can also get help in Perm. Details – in the material of RT correspondent Maria Finoshina. … Read More >In Perm, doctors helped an American patient who was considered hopeless in the United States

Categories USA

Biden’s Covid-19 advisory team features ‘death panel’ doc who suggested dying at 75 is ‘not a tragedy’

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Presumptive US president-elect Joe Biden’s pandemic advisory team includes oncologist Ezekiel Emanuel, who famously argued life should end at 75. Given Covid-19’s risk profile –and Biden’s own age– the choice has raised eyebrows. … Read More >Biden’s Covid-19 advisory team features ‘death panel’ doc who suggested dying at 75 is ‘not a tragedy’

Categories EU

‘Christmas in shifts’ German nursing care commissioner calls on people to take turns at celebrating

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Germans should limit their contacts to a point when they need to even “take turns” at celebrating Christmas with various relatives to avoid large gatherings, the nation’s nursing care commissioner believes. … Read More >‘Christmas in shifts’ German nursing care commissioner calls on people to take turns at celebrating

Categories UK

Health system ‘won’t be able to cope’ if current growth of Covid-19 infections continues, top UK epidemiologist warns

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Britain’s leading epidemiologist, Neil Ferguson, has warned that “in a month’s time,” the country may be hit much harder by the pandemic than during its peak level in March, unless the surge in infections is stopped. … Read More >Health system ‘won’t be able to cope’ if current growth of Covid-19 infections continues, top UK epidemiologist warns