In a perspective published Jan. 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine, vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit says it’s time to rethink booster recommendations.
In the third year of the pandemic, the population’s immune situation is vastly different from what it was in 2019 when SARS-CoV-2 emerged. Now, most people have been vaccinated against the virus, been infected with it (once or multiple times), or both. And the latest data show that the newest booster shot, which targets the Omicron BA.4/5 strain and original virus variants in a bivalent formulation, isn’t that much more effective in generating virus-fighting antibodies than the original vaccine when used as a booster.
“The experience of the past year has taught us that chasing these Omicro…
Losing a spouse forces people into what is often one of the most vulnerable parts of their lives. The negative health consequences of widowhood can stretch years down the line, but in some cases, they don’t get a chance to. The phenomenon in which both halves of a couple die in short succession is so common that it even has a name: the widowhood effect.
How at risk is any given person? That depends on many contributing factors, from their religion to race and even their spouse’s cause of death. But the widowhood effect is generally believed to be a problem primarily affecting closely bonded elderly couples.
However, a study published Mar. 22 in the journal PLOS One finds that younger people—especially men—are even more at risk. Researchers in …
Israel and the Palestinian territories are among the most climate vulnerable places on the planet. Yet the newly-formed government led by Benjamin Netanyahu has focused more on shoring up far-right support than addressing the challenges of global warming in the region.
Whereas worldwide temperatures have increased by an average of 1.1°C since pre-industrial times, in Israel and the surrounding areas, average temperatures have risen by 1.5°C (2.7°F) between 1950 and 2017, according to the Israeli Meteorological Service, with a forecasted increase of 4°C (7.2°F) by the end of the century. Meanwhile, rising sea levels—projected by Israel’s Environment Ministry to be as high as a meter by 2050, according to a new investigative report by Haaretz…
The CEO meeting ran in parallel to talks near Washington aimed at refreshing the 1994 agreement, with Mexico, Canada and businesses united in opposition to a number of radical U.S. proposals they say would damage the North American economy.U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would be open to bilateral trade pacts with Mexico or Canada if a deal cannot be reached to substantially revise NAFTA.
“We are all much worse off with a bad agreement than with no (NAFTA),” said Guillermo Vogel, who co-chaired the Mexico City event and is a vice president at Tenaris, a steel company.The meeting, part of a bilateral “CEO dialogue” that meets a couple of times each year, included a closed-door discussion on the NAFTA negotiations addressed by Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray…
Friday’s data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed retail sales climbed 0.4% in June after a 0.1% gain in May, beating analysts’ forecast for a 0.3% riseคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. That was the best monthly growth since February when retail sales jumped 0.8%.Retail sales growth has withered in recent months, staying under 1% since late 2017 as Australia’s once-booming housing market weakened dramatically leaving households with a mountain of debt.
Economists are increasingly optimistic good times will return helped by two back-to-back central bank rate cuts, tentative signs of a property market turnaround and government tax rebates to households.“The…
Under Mallzee’s Lost Stock initiative, boxes of clothes – with brand labels removed – are sold for 35 pounds ($44), with 37% of the retail price donated to a charity supplying food and other goods to clothing workers hit by layoffs and unpaid wages.“We had the industry contacts to be in the perfect position to connect consumers with the cancelled stock supporting garment workers and helping avoid the clothes ending up in landfill,” Melanie Gray, a spokeswoman for Edinburgh-based Mallzee, said.
Labour advocates in Bangladesh welcomed Mallzee’s efforts but expressed concern that such initiatives could let big brands off the hook over mass cancelled orders that are putting the livelihoods of thousands of workers at risk.“I appreciate this. But why do our workers have to liv…
As labor, raw material and tax costs rise in China – the world’s foremost textiles producer – the East African country is scrambling to offer a cheaper alternative, and go up against established low-cost garment makers like Bangladesh and Vietnam.It is still early days, and most of the clothing companies to source production in Ethiopia are testing the waters with small volumes, but the government is working hard to attract their business with tax breaks, subsidies and cheap loans. The landlocked nation is also about to open the final stretch of a 700 km (450-mile) electric railway to Djibouti’s coast.
This is part of a drive to turn a nation that is among the poorest in Africa into a manufacturing center that is no longer held hostage by fickle weather patterns which…
LVMH has for a long time been a key sponsorship partner to the sporting world, notably supplying trophy cases for some of the most prestigious sporting competitions, made by trunk-maker Louis Vuitton, but also with classic kit sponsorship deals for various top teams, and above all individual football and basketball stars, who have replaced celebrities among runway show guests. But this autumn, LVMH’s sponsorship announcements are coming thick and fast, like never before. The latest deal, announced on Thursday November 2, is between Christian Dior and French wheelchair tennis player Pauline Déroulède, chosen by the label as its brand ambassador for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.In July, LVMH announced it had become one of the Paris Games’ premium partnersคำพู…
De Beers markets its rough diamonds in a series of tightly scripted sales, where handpicked buyers are normally expected to take all their contracted allocations at a price set by De Beers, or face potential penalties in the future. But with prices in free fall around the world, the one-time diamond monopoly has been forced to allow more and more flexibility, finally removing the restrictions altogether.The concessions are the latest in a series of increasingly desperate moves across the industry to stem this year’s plunge in diamond prices, after slowing consumer demand left buyers stuck with swelling inventories. De Beers’s great rival, Russian miner Alrosa PJSC, already canceled all its sales for two months, while the market in India — the dominant cutting and trading center …
The action is the latest by U.S. President Donald Trump to put pressure on China to negotiate trade concessions after imposing tariffs on $34 billion in goods last monthคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. China has vowed to retaliate to an equal degree.The latest $16 billion list will hit semiconductors from China, even though many of the basic chips in these products originate from the United States, Taiwan or South Korea.
The 25 percent tariffs also will apply to a broad range of Chinese electronics, plastics, chemicals and railway equipment that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has said benefit from the “Made in China 2025” industrial plan, aimed at making China c…