EPISODE SUMMARY “Terrible diseases like smallpox, polio, yellow fever where, you know, the capital in the United States in those days, Philadelphia, in the 1700s, 10% of the population died. When you vaccinate against them, you prevent them, and they no longer are problems.” - Seth Berkley In today’s episode, co-hosts Dr. Celine Gounder and Ron Klain speak with Seth Berkley and Dr. Peter Hotez about a topic that has received a lot of attention lately-- vaccines. They discuss the processes involved in developing a vaccine for COVID-19, including when we can realistically expect a vaccine to become available to the public. They talk about the concept of herd immunity and how high vaccination rates are an essential component to this process. They also discuss the anti-vaxxer movement … [Read more...]
About Adriana Ramos
She holds a Bachelors Degree in International Relations from the Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico). She has worked in administrative, design, human resources, accounting, and analysis positions for companies as diverse as Avalon Steel Corporation, CSC Continuum-Computer Science Corporation (CSC), Laboratorios Chalber, in the public sector, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Ministry (S.R.E.); Social Media and Marketing Specialist for Non-Profit Organizations as U.S. National Committee of UN Women, East Florida Chapter and Founder Board Member of U.S. National Committee for UN Women Miami Chapter; Founding Board Member Arsht Families Culture for Kids. She is founder of ideas4solutions organization, which has several collaborators from Latin America.
Keep informed by scientists. Listen to the podcast “EPIDEMIC” from Seth Berkley and Peter Hotez episode S1E25 / A COVID Vaccine.
What are the human rights considerations in the response to COVID-19?
Experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health offer science and evidence-based insights on the public health news of the day. The current focus is the novel coronavirus spreading around the world. In today's @PublicHealthPod, @DrJoshS speaks with @LenRubenstein about the human rights issues involved in the novel #coronavirus epidemic.🔗 https://t.co/N0vpOR0ijYhttps://t.co/MqV0OODKdD— Public Health On Call (@PublicHealthPod) March 18, 2020 … [Read more...]
Parte un Gigante, Valentín Pimstein.
Eran las ocho de la noche, y el olor a buñuelos que cocinaba Glo, llegaba hasta los pies de la puerta de mi recamara. Rápidamente, tomaba mis pantuflas y desde el segundo piso, recorría las escaleras apresuradamente hacia las cocina. Glo, Carmen, Olegario, Erika suspiraban viendo el televisora, mis hermanos sentados, agitando los platos, estaban listos para la merienda. Por otro lado, sin saber por qué el sollozo de los adultos, tome mi lugar en la pequeña mesa antes del antecomedor, el olor del pinole llenaba las paredes de la cocina, enfrente de la isla se encontraba una repisas, en ella un televisor. “La telenovela Rina continuara en breve”, decía una voz desde la pantalla. Entre comerciales nos servían los buñuelos, ¿podemos más chocolate caliente? Preguntaba uno de mis … [Read more...]
Aggressive Ransomware campaign was recently released
A particularly aggressive Ransomware campaign was recently released. It was observed and mention by several Companies around the world, their IT departments had notified that more than 120,000 E-Mails were sent daily over the last weeks. Ransomware is malicious software that encrypts files and demands payment for the decryption key. In the latest strain: The spam subject is an empty, “Fw:”, with a zip file attachment named: xls_convert_recipientname_randomnumber.zip. The body of the message indicates that the attachment contains requested invoices in Excel file format. The other campaign was sent with subject “Profile” containing a similar zip file attachment. The name of that attached file is: recipientname_profile_randomnumber.zip. As always, we suggest … [Read more...]
Latin America’s Top 50 Brands
Analyzing the 50 most valuable brands in Latin America is not an easy task. Last week Millward Brown and MPP just did that, released their fourth annual Brand in Latin America, they analyzed the region's six top economies: Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina (PDF Doc Report). The 83 pages reports includes a extend breakout of the top 50 brands by country, even do there is been a despite slow economic growth in Latin America, they rise a 2% y/y/y. Some of the highlights include; Mexico, 17 top 50 brands, $49.4 billion value, +15% y/o/y Brazil, 11 top 50 brands, $32 billion value, +5% y/o/y Chile, 7 top 50 brands, $19.4 billion value, -23% y/o/y Colombia, 9 top 50 brands, $19.3 billion value, -4% y/o/y Peru, 4 top 50 brands, $6.1 billion value, +15% … [Read more...]
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