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...“You could say that the United States isn’t what it was in relative terms, 10, 15, 20 years ago,” says Jon Alterman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies....
...Ghassan Abu Sittah, who also works at Dar al-Shifa, says the past week had left the hospital in a “catastrophic situation”....
...At the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Mona Nasrallah, an endocrinologist, said three out of the 10 doctors in her department had gone abroad....
...“We already have seen what Covid has done to this community,” said Kecia Gaither, an obstetrician for NYC Health and Hospitals in the Bronx borough of New York City....
...Lack of staff had forced the hospital to merge general and paediatric wards two days earlier....
...of clinical operations at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC)’s emergency department....
...The whole economic situation, Covid-19 and then the blast — it was the perfect storm,” said Ghina Ghazeeri, associate professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the American University of Beirut Medical Center...
...He later visited Lebanon’s main coronavirus treatment centre, the Rafik Hariri hospital. But the trip was interspersed with political meetings, beginning with former prime minister Sa’ad Hariri....
...From Lebanon to the Philippines, national governments changed laws to guarantee their supply of vaccines....
...Some analysts are warning that the Middle East could face catastrophe, that the arrival of Covid-19 means “all bets are off”, as Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East Programme at the Center for Strategic...
...might also explain why coronavirus has spread more quickly in areas where black people make up a high percentage of the population, according to Paulette Henriquez, the director of a health charity in the Bronx...
...He is also working on a new Maggie’s Centre at the Royal Free Hospital in London....
...For more than 50 years, Gutfreund had been a board member at the Montefiore Medical Center, a group of hospitals in the Bronx, and also served on the boards of the New York Public Library and the Aperture...
...It has grown from a tiny experiment by Charles Best, a 25-year-old teacher, to see if he could raise funds to get 10 small-scale classroom projects off the ground in his school in the Bronx in 2000, to a...
...“What appears to be medical masks worn by hospital personnel and some bystanders would not be sufficient to protect against chemical weapons agents,” he said....
...At the South Florida Reception Center, a state prison in Miami, James Jiler encourages incarcerated men to garden....
...The writer is a research associate at the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture...
...Suspected cases at a daycare center in the Bronx had so far tested negative for swine flu, Mr Bloomberg said....
...The richness of religious diversity must be upheld – whether it is for Maronites in Lebanon or the Copts in Egypt....
...Niblett is executive vice-president and director of the Europe programme at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC....
...Newspapers have criticised Margaret Chan, China’s candidate, for her role as director of health in Hong Kong during the Sars crisis – prompting Jeffrey Koplan, former director of the US Centers for Disease...
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