Nov 11, 2020

What do new rules from China mean for the Big Tech behind Singles’ Day?

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Deep discounts usually mean billions in spending on one of the most important online shopping days for internet giant Alibaba. Plus, once a COVID-19 vaccine is approved, what's needed for a mass immunization rollout?

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Fast-Track Vaccines

Hard decisions loom in prioritizing who gets COVID-19 vaccine first

by Victoria Craig

Nov 11, 2020

"There will be consequences, always, from these choices," says former WHO chair David Salisbury. "But we try to make them with the best interests of the most people at heart."

"The real big challenge for COVID vaccination is that we're talking not just about people at risk, but we're talking about everybody," says David Salisbury, former chair of the World Health Organization's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization.

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