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Doris Campos, the owner of Panchita's in San Francisco, defended both her restaurant and her family from a customer who became violent while waiting for her takeout order
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A plane carrying one million doses of Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine arrived on Saturday in Serbia, making it the first European country to receive the Chinese vaccine for mass inoculation programmes. President Aleksandar Vucic was accompanied by Beijing's ambassador to the Balkan country at Belgrade's airport as containers carrying the vaccines were unloaded from an Air Serbia plane. "I would like to thank President Xi Jinping and Chinese leadership for sending us one million doses of the vaccine," Vucic, who has helped forge close ties with China in recent years, told reporters.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off one of the world's largest vaccination drives with two locally-produced Covid 19 shots which will go into the arms of healthcare workers in the first phase of a vast exercise to inoculate millions by mid-summer. “Never before such an enormous inoculation drive been attempted in the world,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told paramedics at 2,934 medical centers, where 300,000 healthcare workers were listed for Saturday’s inaugural jabs.Around 30 million healthcare and frontline personnel would get priority shots followed by 270 million others in the first leg of India’s Covid-19 immunization program, set to be completed by July.“Our vaccination program is driven by humanitarian concerns…Those exposed to maximum risk will get priority,” Modi said via video-conference.A total of 2,238 doctors have been infected and 382 died from Covid-19, according to the Indian Medical Association.The government has sent 16 million shots to the vaccination centers where the healthcare workers will receive two doses each free of cost. “This is the beginning of the end of Covid,” Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said.With 10.5 million infections and 152,000 Covid deaths, India is the second worst-affected country after the US but it has posted high recovery and one of the world’s lowest mortality rates.Government fights efficacy "rumors"Saturday’s celebratory launch came with a stout defense of Covaxin, a locally-developed Covid-19 shot which has received limited approval as its final phase efficacy results were expected by March.“People must stay away from rumors and propaganda of any sort,” prime minister Modi said.State-run Indian Council of Medical Research, which developed Covaxin jointly with a private drug-maker, insisted the vaccine was found to be safe after human trials that began in November.“We have found that there is no problem in terms of safety in these 2,500 individuals although half of them got placebo and the other half got the vaccination,” Council head Balram Bhargava told state-run TV.The government has purchased 5.5 million doses of Covaxin from its manufacturer – Bharat Biotech International.Brazil became the first foreign country to buy India’s Covaxin after signing a deal earlier this week.India’s Serum Institute, the world’s largest vaccine-maker by volume, has also supplied 11 million doses of a vaccine developed by Oxford University and British drug firm AstraZeneca, which is locally branded as Covishield.Drug firms crank up productionSerum Institute, which daily manufactures 2.4 million doses of Covishield, plans to ramp up production to 14.4 million doses a day, a company official said.Bharat Biotech has also told local media it would produce 700 million doses of Covaxin a year after setting up four new drug factories in India.Vaccine jittersA forum of doctors at Delhi’s prestigious Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in a letter to the authorities said Saturday they preferred Covishield over Covaxin.“We request you to vaccinate us with Covishield which has completed all stages of the trial before its rollout," the forum said.But physicians at other city hospitals said they had no misgivings over the locally-developed vaccine.Health Minister Harsh Vardhan also insisted both brands were equally safe.“Both vaccines have gone through scientific scrutiny before they were authorized for emergency use,” the government minister said and asked people to turn their backs on “rumors.”Manish Kumar, a 33-year-old cleaner in a city hospital was the first to get the shot in Delhi.“Initially, I was nervous but then I overcame my fears and took the shot,” Kumar said after he was injected a Covaxin dose in front of television cameras.
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It's tough to control the spread of information online, but health officials in the Northwest Territories have been trying to tackle the gossip, mistruths and questionable sources around COVID-19 and the vaccine one comment at a time. Mike Westwick has been managing the N.W.T. government's communications response to COVID-19 through most of the pandemic and tries to "flood the zone" with good information. He says people have become better informed throughout, but his team still spends a fair bit of time combating misinformation. "Folks are understandably scared and a little bit frantic during a pandemic," Westwick said. "And our job as communicators is to help them feel a little bit more at ease and get them the information that they need to protect themselves and others." He says the sources of misinformation can vary, from discredited websites to word of mouth — people playing the "telephone game." In the N.W.T., he says the most common misinformation is generally related to the level of threat northerners are facing, "phantom cases" of COVID-19 that never actually existed, or that the territory isn't testing enough. In those cases, he says his team offers quantitative data to dispel the mistruths. "There have been many occasions where we've taken to social media directly to combat those rumours in order to give people, you know, an accurate idea of what the risk is and the current state of COVID-19," Westwick said. Northerners open to conversations Westwick says it's a risk communicator's job to "directly, rapidly and empathetically" combat misinformation. "Social media has opened up all kinds of opportunities for misinformation to spread," he said. "But it's also opened up unprecedented opportunities to actually join those conversations as communicators." Westwick says that, by and large, northerners are open to having those conversations and appreciate hearing from someone with helpful information. "I would just really applaud northerners for ... being receptive to that information and taking the right actions that have led us to the point that we're at today in a very successful pandemic response," he said. That response will be changing hands though. Westwick has taken on a new role in communications for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. He says it's been an "intense" year, but quite a ride, and he's looking forward to the new challenge. How to spot misinformation Nadya Bliss, the executive director of the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University, says people spreading misinformation online are often doing it unintentionally and "tapping into a sense of belonging." Bliss says there are several red flags and things to consider as you scroll through social media feeds. Does the content create an overly emotional response, or make a broad claim? "We're living through a number of overlapping crises. And in crises, people tend to want to share information faster," Bliss said. "You're just nervous, you're worried and you want to share something." Broad claims from unofficial sources should be cross-checked with a trusted source, Bliss said. If you're seeing similar posts or stories, remember — it's the algorithm. Social media algorithms prioritize what they think you will be most interested in, and will amplify posts from your social circle, said Bliss. "If you are getting information from your group of peers or friends, a lot of the time the reason you see it is because you clicked on something similar," she said. "And that is not a way to get trusted scientific information." There is a financial motive behind sharing the information. The best information comes from groups without a profit incentive, like government sources or reliable journalistic sources, because they're focused on "integrity" rather than driving clicks, said Bliss. The post is out of date or has a false information flag. Facebook and Twitter now explicitly label false information, so look out for those. Also make sure the information is current by checking the date.