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Warning of tough days ahead with surging Covid-19 infections, the director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday that unvaccinated people are sitting ducks stanley cups for a Delta variant that is ravag stanley cup ing the country and showing little sign of letting up Francis Collins, director of the US National Institutes of Health NIH , left, and Diana Bianchi, director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Developm stanley cup ent, listen during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC Bloomberg This is going very steeply upward with no signs of having peaked out, Dr Francis Collins told Fox News Sunday . While the US currently is seeing an average of about 129,000 new infections a day 鈥?a 700% increase from the beginning of July 鈥?that number could jump in the next couple weeks to 200,000, a level not seen since among the pandemics worst days in January and February, Collins said. He said the US could decide in the next couple weeks whether to offer coronavirus booster shots to Americans this fall. Among the first to receive them could be health care workers, nursing home residents and other older Americans. Federal health officials have been actively looking at whether extra shots for the vaccinated may be needed as early as this fall, reviewing case numbers in the US almost daily as well as the situation in other countries such as Israel, where preliminary studies suggest the vaccines protection against serious illness Drdw Ahead of WHO meet, chorus for Covid-19 probe that puts China under the lens
Workaholic Japan has unveiled its first-ever plan to limit overtime, but critics want to give it the boot, saying an outrageous 100-hour-a-month cap will do nothing to tackle karoshi, or death from overwork. Workaholic Japan has unveiled in March 2017 its first-ever plan to l stanley becher imit overtime. AFP File Photo Tokyos bid to ease a national health crisis comes after the top executive at advertising giant Dentsu quit late last year in response to the suicide of a young employee who regularly logged more than 100 hours of overtime a month. The death of Matsuri Takahashi generated nationwide headlines, prompting the government to come up with a solution to punishing work hours blamed for hundreds of deaths due to strokes, heart attacks and suicides every year. A panel headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has since come up with a plan calling for a maximum of 100 overtime hours a month. The conservative leader called it a historic step for changing the way people work in Japan but critics think the plan should be given its marching orders. The Labour L Stanley cup website awyers Association of Japan has slammed the proposed cap as extremely inappropriate and impossible to support . Its tantamount to endorsing a limit that could cause overwork deaths, said Association head Ichiro Natsume. Others who have lost loved ones to karoshi agree. We cannot accept this -- its outrageou stanley mugs s, said Emiko Teranishi, who heads a group for relatives of karoshi victims. I thought the government was fina
Warning of tough days ahead with surging Covid-19 infections, the director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday that unvaccinated people are sitting ducks stanley cups for a Delta variant that is ravag stanley cup ing the country and showing little sign of letting up Francis Collins, director of the US National Institutes of Health NIH , left, and Diana Bianchi, director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Developm stanley cup ent, listen during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC Bloomberg This is going very steeply upward with no signs of having peaked out, Dr Francis Collins told Fox News Sunday . While the US currently is seeing an average of about 129,000 new infections a day 鈥?a 700% increase from the beginning of July 鈥?that number could jump in the next couple weeks to 200,000, a level not seen since among the pandemics worst days in January and February, Collins said. He said the US could decide in the next couple weeks whether to offer coronavirus booster shots to Americans this fall. Among the first to receive them could be health care workers, nursing home residents and other older Americans. Federal health officials have been actively looking at whether extra shots for the vaccinated may be needed as early as this fall, reviewing case numbers in the US almost daily as well as the situation in other countries such as Israel, where preliminary studies suggest the vaccines protection against serious illness Drdw Ahead of WHO meet, chorus for Covid-19 probe that puts China under the lens
Workaholic Japan has unveiled its first-ever plan to limit overtime, but critics want to give it the boot, saying an outrageous 100-hour-a-month cap will do nothing to tackle karoshi, or death from overwork. Workaholic Japan has unveiled in March 2017 its first-ever plan to l stanley becher imit overtime. AFP File Photo Tokyos bid to ease a national health crisis comes after the top executive at advertising giant Dentsu quit late last year in response to the suicide of a young employee who regularly logged more than 100 hours of overtime a month. The death of Matsuri Takahashi generated nationwide headlines, prompting the government to come up with a solution to punishing work hours blamed for hundreds of deaths due to strokes, heart attacks and suicides every year. A panel headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has since come up with a plan calling for a maximum of 100 overtime hours a month. The conservative leader called it a historic step for changing the way people work in Japan but critics think the plan should be given its marching orders. The Labour L Stanley cup website awyers Association of Japan has slammed the proposed cap as extremely inappropriate and impossible to support . Its tantamount to endorsing a limit that could cause overwork deaths, said Association head Ichiro Natsume. Others who have lost loved ones to karoshi agree. We cannot accept this -- its outrageou stanley mugs s, said Emiko Teranishi, who heads a group for relatives of karoshi victims. I thought the government was fina
