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Countries across Europe are scrambling to accelerate coronavirus vaccinations and outpace the spread of the more infectious delta variant, in a high-stakes race to prevent hospital wards from filling up again with patients fighting for their lives.
The urgency coincides with Europe's summer holiday months, with fair weather bringing more social gatherings and governments reluctant to clamp down on them. Physical distancing is commonly neglected, especially among the young, and some countries are scrapping the requirement to wear masks outdoors.
Incentives for people to get shots include free groceries, travel and entertainment vouchers, and prize drawings. The president of Cyprus even appealed to a sense of patriotism.
The risk of infection from the delta variant is "high to very high" for partially or unvaccinated communities, according to the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC), which monitors 30 countries on the continent. It estimates that by the end of August, the variant will account for 90 per centof cases in the European Union.
"It is very important to progress with the vaccine rollout at a very high pace," the ECDC warned.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is also concerned. The variant makes transmission growth "exponential," according to Maria Van Kerkhove, its technical lead on COVID-19.
Daily new case numbers are already climbing sharply in countries like the United Kingdom, Portugal and Russia.
In some countries, the virus is spreading much faster among younger people. In Spain, the national 14-day case notification rate per 100,000 people rose to 152 on Friday. But for the 20-29 age group, it shot up to 449.
Those numbers have triggered alarm across the continent.
The Dutch government is extending its vaccination program to those aged 12-17 to help head off a feared new surge. Greece is offering young adults 150 euros ($219 Cdn) in credit after their first jab. Rome authorities are mulling the use of vans to vaccinate people at the beach. And Poland last week launched a lottery open only to adults who are fully vaccinated, with new cars among the prizes.
Portuguese authorities have extended the hours of vaccination centres, created new walk-in clinics, called up armed forces personnel to help run operations, and reduced the period between taking the two doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine from 12 weeks to eight weeks.
"We're in a race against the clock," Cabinet Minister Mariana Vieira da Silva said.
The emerging variants have shone a light on the unprecedented scale of the immunization programs. The ECDC says that in the countries it surveys, 61 per cent of people over 18 have had one shot and 40 per cent are completely vaccinated.
As of 4 p.m. ET on Saturday, Canada had reported 1,416,661 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 6,256 considered active. A CBC News tally of deaths stood at 26,348. More than 38 millionCOVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered so far across the country.
In British Columbia,78.5per cent of eligible residents have been administered their first COVID-19 vaccine shot. About 33per cent of those eligible have received a second dose.
In the Prairies, Saskatchewan logged 49 new COVID-19 cases andManitoba added48 and an additional deathon Saturday, while in Alberta,demand for first shots has stagnated over the past two weeks.
Ontario registered209 new cases and nine additional deaths on Saturday.
Starting Monday at 8 a.m., residents 12 to 17 years old will be eligible to book an appointment to receive their second shot of Pfizer through the provincial booking system. They must wait 28 days between doses, as recommended by the Ontario health ministry.
In Quebec,operating hours of the Olympic Stadium vaccination clinic in Montreal will be extended on July 5 given the nearby screening of Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final, which will be played at the Bell Centre. People who wish to get vaccinated at the site can do so from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Monday.
In Atlantic Canada, New Brunswick saw no new cases;and Nova Scotia, which added eight infections on Saturday,says international travellers canstart entering the province againon Monday.
InPrince Edward Island,more than 82 per cent of eligible residents have been administered their first vaccine dose, with just under 24 per centfully vaccinated.
Meanwhile, the main drag of Newfoundland and Labrador's capital city is now open to pedestrians only, as St. John's has reopened a pedestrian mall along Water Street downtown. Businesses have built patios stretching across the sidewalk and onto the road where patrons can dine, shop and drink.
St. John's city council introduced the pedestrian mall last year as a way to encourage people to stay outdoors safely during the pandemic.
In the North, Yukonhealth officials are now reducing the number of visitors to long-term care homes as the territory records31 infections over the past two days.Nunavut reported 10 new infections; andin the Northwest Territories,mask requirements and appointments at many Yellowknife institutions such as the public library and pools will be lifted on Monday.
As of Saturday, more than183.1million cases of COVID-19 had been reported around the world, according to data published by Johns Hopkins Universityin the United States. The reported global death toll stood at more than 3.9 million.
In Africa,South Africa registered more than 24,000 cases on Friday, its highest tally of new infections since the pandemic began.
In Asia, Malaysia will ease a coronavirus lockdown in five states next week in a bid to allow a quicker reopening of its economy.
In the Americas, protests against President Jair Bolsonaro spread across Brazil on Saturday, a day after a Supreme Court justice authorized a criminal investigation into his response to allegations of corruption involving a vaccine deal.
COPENHAGEN, July 1 (Reuters) - Crowds at Euro 2020 football stadiums and in pubs and bars in host cities are driving the current rise in coronavirus infections in Europe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.
A 10-week decline in new coronavirus infections across the region has come to an end and a new wave of infections is inevitable if football fans and others drop their guard, according to WHO.
Last week, the number of new cases rose by 10%, driven by mixing of crowds in Euro 2020 host cities, travel and easing of social restrictions, WHO said.
"We need to look much beyond just the stadiums themselves," WHO's senior emergency officer, Catherine Smallwood, told reporters.
"We need to look at how people get there, are they travelling in large crowded convoys of buses? And when they leave the stadiums, are they going into crowded bars and pubs to watch the matches?
"It is these small continuous events that are driving the spread of the virus," Smallwood said.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer called a decision by European soccer's governing body UEFA to allow big crowds at Euro 2020 "utterly irresponsible". read more
UEFA said in a statement to Reuters that mitigation measures at host venues "are fully aligned with the regulations set out by the competent local public health authorities".
The rise in new COVID-19 cases is happening as the more contagious Delta virus variant spreads rapidly across Europe.
Nearly 2,000 people who live in Scotland have attended a Euro 2020 event while infectious with COVID-19, with many attending their group stage match against England in London on June 18, Scottish authorities said on Wednesday. read more
The rise in infections has raised concern that a third wave could spread across Europe in the autumn if people don't get vaccinated.
"The concern of an autumn surge is still there, but what we see now is that it might come even earlier," Smallwood said.
Reporting by Nikolaj Skydsgaard and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen; editing by John Stonestreet, Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Nick Macfie
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WASHINGTONAddressing a celebratory July 4 crowd at the White House, President Biden declared that the United States is closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus but emphasized the importance of vaccinations.
Mr. Biden has for months cited Independence Day as a moment when Americans could see a return to something like normalcy, saying early in his presidency that he hoped families would be able to gather for the holiday. More than 50% of the population has received at least one dose of the vaccine, and Covid-19 cases have plummeted from the winter highs.
Businesses are reopening, and the economy is recovering.The weekend is expected to be a busy one for travel, with Americans hitting the road after a year of lockdowns.
But vaccinations have slowed in recent months. The White House recently acknowledged that the U.S. wouldnt reach the presidents goal of getting at least one coronavirus vaccine dose to 70% of the adult population by July 4. The highly transmissible Delta variant of the virus is spreading rapidly. And a recent surge in the inflation rate has some economists worried about the economy overheating.
On Sunday evening, roughly 1,000 peoplemostly essential workers and military familiesgathered on the White Houses South Lawn. It was covered with red, white and blue decorations and dotted with festive tables and signs that read Americas Back Together. The crowd listened to military bands and dined on burgers, chicken sandwiches and pulled pork.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (WDAF) As America celebrates Independence Day, doctors warn we arent free from the danger of COVID-19 or its variants.
While some aspects of the Fourth of July weekend differ between 2020 and 2021, others are much the same. In 2021, swimming pools are open, large gatherings are organized and public fireworks displays are planned. But, in 2021, just like in 2020, doctors are warning of the danger of spiking COVID-19 cases across the country.
Yes, it is a concern. July 4, Dr. Raghu Adiga, chief medical officer at Liberty Hospital, said during an update with The University of Kansas Health System. Mostly those gatherings happen to be outside rather than indoors. Thats a plus, but again, not always.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Disease, said people can celebrate this Fourth of July, but the nature of that celebration should greatly depend on ones vaccination status.
But at some point, you have to ask yourself, are you really safer not getting vaccinated when over 2 billion doses of vaccine have been administered throughout the world and people have not died from the vaccine? Its just unheard of. You know whats not unheard of? Dying of COVID-19.
If you were vaccinated, you have a high degree of protection. If you are not, you should wear a mask, and you should think very seriously about getting vaccinated, Fauci said. So, in so many respects, nothing has really changed. We are celebrating as a country at the same time as we recognize the fact that were in a serious situation for those who have not been vaccinated. And the message is: Get vaccinated.
The countrys seven day case average from June 23-29 has seen a 10 percent jump, according to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
If youre not vaccinated, youre not safe, said Dr. Steve Stites, chief medical officer at the University of Kansas Health System.
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During an update on Facebook Thursday morning, the University of Kansas Health System warned that hospitals in the Kansas City metro are already full because of illnesses other than COVID-19. They warn that a large surge following the holiday weekend will be dangerous.
One of the things we should be afraid of is that hospitals are full and theyre full throughout our community, Stites said. Thats because all the normal stuff is back out there again. As masks have come off what were seeing is that people are getting sick.
Routine colds, heart failure acting up, all of the things that would happen to us normally are happening now. And just to say were not usually this full in June, but were really full. And everybodys really full. So if we have a surge, trouble will come a lot sooner this time than it did last time.
Health experts warn the delta variant is much more transmissible than other strains of coronaviruses. They say the best protection against COVID-19 and the delta variant is to get vaccinated, something health departments in many states are struggling to convince people to do.
Theres just not a lot of defense against not getting vaccinated except, Im gonna say it, paranoia, Stites said.
I understand fear, everybody has the right to make that choice on their own, I have a fundamental belief in that. But at some point, you have to ask yourself, are you really safer not getting vaccinated when over 2 billion doses of vaccine have been administered throughout the world and people have not died from the vaccine? Its just unheard of. You know whats not unheard of? Dying of COVID-19.
Something else thats not unheard of is cities and countries going backwards that are now reinstating restrictions because of a concerning spike in COVID-19 cases. Los Angeles County, Britain, and Israel have taken steps to try to stop another surge in cases.
Its all about the people who arent immunized, Stites said. I think we need to be really concerned and Im not saying its time to do that in Kansas City, but Im saying we may enter into that, so I just urge everyone out there, over the holiday weekend to please be safe and remember, the rules of infection control, whether theyre required or not, are the rules that will keep you safe and if youre not vaccinated, you frickin need to have a mask on. If you dont have a mask on youre throwing the dice.
Many retail pharmacies, grocery stores, and health departments have walk-in vaccination times available, no appointment necessary. Check with yours for availability if you need to get vaccinated.
In stark contrast to the Fourth of July just a year ago, people were eager to break out the picnic tables and grills Sunday. But, for many its a day without a loved one lost to COVID-19.
One North Texas woman is asking her fellow Americans to stand in solidarity with those still dealing with the pain of that loss.
Like many others, Rosie Davis enjoyed the Fourth of July holiday on Sunday, complete with cupcakes and decorations. Sitting among the red, white and blue decor inside her house, were splashes of yellow.
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This is a turning point for our country and we just want to make sure that our loved ones are remembered, she said.
Davis is founder of the Yellow Heart Memorial, created after the loss of her mother to COVID-19. Shes among the family members impacted by the more than 600,000 COVID-19-related deaths in United States. For them, holidays will never be the same.
Were always going to have that missing part of our family, she said. Well never get them back.
Davis teamed up with Chris Kocher with COVID Survivors for Change to launch the Add Yellow Campaign a splash of yellow on one's clothing or decorations in solidarity with those lost and the loved ones left behind.
Just a simple way to say, At the same time, Im remembering and honoring all the lives that have been changed forever. And its not an either-or. We can do both, Kocher said. We can celebrate that fewer people are being infected and at the same time remember the families devastated by COVID over the past year.
Davis said it's encouraging to know her mother and the names and faces of others wont be forgotten.
The yellow heart has become our symbol and thats how we identify each other, she said. When we see other people supporting us it means more than they know.
Davis is working with cities throughout the United States to add permanent Yellow Heart Memorials to public spaces in honor of those lost.
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ATHENS, July 4 (Reuters) - Greece's economy would not close again because of the coronavirus pandemic if it was just to protect an unvaccinated minority, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a newspaper interview released on Sunday.
Greece has fared well in the first wave of the COVID-19 last year. But a resurgence in COVID-19 infections has forced the country to impose lockdown restrictions since November which have cost many billions of euros to an economy slowly emerging from a decade-long crisis.
Greece has been easing restrictions as infections fall, but concerns are rising about the spread of the more contagious Delta variant.
With about 35% of its 11 million population fully inoculated, the government last week offered young people cash and phone data to boost vaccination rates.
"When we imposed across-the-board measures, there were no vaccines," Mitsotakis told Kathimerini newspaper. "We do have vaccines now."
Mitsotakis said he can't make vaccinations mandatory. "But everyone assumes his responsibility. The country will not close again for the protection of a few unvaccinated."
Mitsotakis said that he hoped that relations between Greece and Turkey will be better this summer than last summer when the two historic rivals came close to armed conflict.
The two NATO allies, at odds over competing territorial claims in the eastern Mediterranean to migrant boats and the status of Cyprus, have been trying to lower tensions since.
"I am more certain that the summer of 2021 will be calmer than the summer of 2020," Mitsotakis said.
However, we have not solved our differences all of a sudden and there will be consequences for Turkey if it opted to fuel tensions, he added.
Reporting by Angeliki KoutantouEditing by Raissa Kasolowsky
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(CBS) Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks during an episode of "Face the Nation" on CBS on Sunday morning.
| July 4, 2021, 6:26 p.m.
| Updated: 8:20 p.m.
COVID-19. Vaccines. Politicization of the pandemic. Drought.
These were the main points Gov. Spencer Cox tackled while on the CBS show Face the Nation on Sunday morning.
Host Ed OKeefe was not shy about asking loaded questions, presumably in an effort to get substantial answers from the Utah governor. But Cox didnt shy away.
When it came to the topic of COVID-19, Cox quickly acknowledged that cases of the Delta variant as well as hospitalizations are rising in the state. The highly contagious variant has also led to a push to get more people vaccinated.
The Republican governor said Utahs population is the youngest in the nation (median age of 30.7 years), which means there is a large portion of people who are unable to get vaccinated. However, 89% of those over 65 are vaccinated.
We feel really good about that, and our death rates have come down because of that, but we desperately need more, Cox said.
However, just because a large part of the state population is young doesnt mean the state isnt trying to reach the young adult and teenage demographics. Cox describes the states very robust vaccination network, which includes mobile vaccine clinics as well as vaccine clinics at and near schools.
Its never been easier to get a vaccine, Cox said.
The Utah Legislature has prevented Cox from offering cash incentives to get more people vaccinated. He said Sunday that hed like to have all options on the table, but he added that not dying is enough incentive for people to seek out a vaccine.
OKeefe then brought up some numbers to show the bipartisan divide on vaccinations. The overwhelming majority of Democrats say theyve been vaccinated, while only 45% of Republicans have been vaccinated and 38% of Republicans say they wont get the vaccine, according to OKeefe.
Its troubling, Cox said in reply.
The Utah governor said its unfortunate that politics is becoming religion, sports and entertainment in the country. He believes making every situation into a political one is a huge mistake and has caused bad decisions to be made during the pandemic.
Cox went on to say that Republicans in Utah have a better vaccination rate than the numbers OKeefe shared, but he didnt give any specifics.
Well continue to work with everyone in our state to get them vaccinated, Cox said.
Next on the docket was the current state of drought Utah is in.
OKeefe brought up a graph with photos of Utah one year apart. This time last year, only a small portion of the state was considered to be in extreme drought. Now, 98% of Utah is in extreme drought, with 65% in exceptional drought.
So, how does Cox expect to get the state out of the current conditions?
First, people need to conserve water better, Cox said.
The sixth-generation alfalfa farmer said his familys farm is down to 70% of its water consumption.
But then it also comes down to storing more water. Utah hasnt been that great at doing so, but Cox mentioned that there is a bipartisan push to get that to happen and start storing water, possibly, below and above ground.
We are also the fastest growing state in the nation, so we have to be prepared for generations to come, Cox said.
When asked how detrimental it is to be part of a political party that includes many who dont believe in climate change, Cox said theyre working to help people understand its impacts.
But he admitted thats a long-term solution, and he listed examples of how Utah is working to combat climate change now by cutting back on emissions and working on electric car infrastructures.
At the end, Cox maintained that Utah is trying to take every step possible to combat the pandemic and the current drought, but acknowledged there is still work to be done.
Great things are happening there, but we also have to take the short-term impacts and take them very seriously, which President Biden did this week, talking about wildfires in the West, Cox said.
A health worker prepares a dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Central Vaccination Center, inside the Bang Sue Grand Station, Thailand, June 21, 2021. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
BANGKOK, July 4 (Reuters) - Thailand plans to allow some construction projects to resume in its capital and surrounding provinces although most sites and workers' camps will remain closed as the Southeast Asian country deals with its biggest coronavirus outbreak to date.
The national COVID-19 task force has agreed to relax curbs on construction projects where they could cause damage or danger, the government said on its Facebook page on Sunday. It cited underground projects, scaffolding and those related to traffic safety as examples.
Construction projects related to COVID-19 control, such as field hospitals, will also be allowed to go ahead.
Movement of construction workers will be allowed for outbreak containment such as health screening and vaccinations, the government said, adding that further details would be announced later.
But construction sites and workers' camps in Bangkok, the epicentre of the outbreak, and five surrounding provinces, will mostly be closed until late this month to contain COVID-19 infections and deaths. read more
Thailand has been dealing with its deadliest coronavirus outbreak Since April. It reported 5,916 new coronavirus cases and 44 deaths on Sunday, bringing total cases to 283,067 and 2,132 deaths.
Reporting by Orathai SriringEditing by Catherine Evans
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Youve probably heard that the coronavirus pandemic triggered a worldwide mental-health crisis. This narrative took hold almost as quickly as the virus itself. In the spring of 2020, article after articleeven an op-ed by one of uswarned of a looming psychological epidemic. As clinical scientists and research psychologists have pointed out, the coronavirus pandemic has created many conditions that might lead to psychological distress: sudden, widespread disruptions to peoples livelihoods and social connections; millions bereaved; and the most vulnerable subjected to long-lasting hardship. A global collapse in well-being has seemed inevitable.
We joined a mental-health task force, commissioned by The Lancet, in order to quantify the pandemics psychological effects. When we reviewed the best available data, we saw that some groupsincluding people facing financial stresshave experienced substantial, life-changing suffering. However, looking at the global population on the whole, we were surprised not to find the prolonged misery we had expected.
We combed through close to 1,000 studies that examined hundreds of thousands of people from nearly 100 countries. This research measured many variables related to mental healthincluding anxiety, depression, and deaths by suicideas well as life satisfaction. We focused on two complementary types of evidence: surveys that examined comparable groups of people before and during the pandemic and studies tracking the same individuals over time. Neither type of study is perfect, but when the same conclusions emerged from both sets of evidence, we gained confidence that we were seeing something real.
Early in the pandemic, our team observed in these studies what the media was reporting: Average levels of anxiety and depressionas well as broader psychological distressclimbed dramatically, as did the number of people experiencing clinically significant forms of these conditions. For example, in both the U.S. and Norway, reports of depression rose three-fold during March and April of 2020 compared with averages collected in previous years. And in a study of more than 50,000 people across the United Kingdom, 27 percent showed clinically significant levels of distress early in the pandemic, compared with 19 percent before the pandemic.
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But as spring turned to summer, something remarkable happened: Average levels of depression, anxiety, and distress began to fall. Some data sets even suggested that overall psychological distress returned to near-pre-pandemic levels by early summer 2020. We share what we learned in a paper that is forthcoming in Perspective on Psychological Science.
We kept digging into the data to account for any anomalies. For example, some of the data sets came disproportionately from wealthy countries, so we expanded our geographic lens. We also considered that even if the pandemic didnt produce intense, long-term distress, it might have undercut peoples overall life satisfaction. So, members from our team examined the largest data set available on that topic, from the Gallup World Poll. This survey asks people to evaluate their life on a 10-point scale, with 10 being the best possible life and zero being the worst. Representative samples of people from most of the worlds countries answer this question every year, allowing us to compare results from 2020 with preceding years. Looking at the world as a whole, we saw no trace of a decline in life satisfaction: People in 2020 rated their lives at 5.75 on average, identical to the average in previous years.
We also wondered if the surveys werent reaching the people who were struggling the most. If youre barely holding things together, you might not answer calls from a researcher. However, real-time data from official government sources in 21 countries showed no detectable increase in instances of suicide from April to July 2020, relative to previous years; in fact, suicide rates actually declined slightly within some countries, including the U.S. For example, California expected to see 1,429 deaths by suicide during this period, based on data from prior years; instead, 1,280 occurred.
We were surprised by how well many people weathered the pandemics psychological challenges. In order to make sense of these patterns, we looked back to a classic psychology finding: People are more resilient than they themselves realize. We imagine that negative life eventslosing a job or a romantic partnerwill be devastating for months or years. When people actually experience these losses, however, their misery tends to fade far faster than they imagined it would.
The capacity to withstand difficult events also applies to traumas such as living through war or sustaining serious injury. These incidents can produce considerable anguish, and we dont want to minimize the pain that so many suffer. But study after study demonstrates that a majority of survivors either bounce back quickly or never show a substantial decline in mental health.
Human beings possess what some researchers call a psychological immune system, a host of cognitive abilities that enable us to make the best of even the worst situation. For example, after breaking up with a romantic partner, people may focus on the exs annoying habits or relish their newfound free time.
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The pandemic has been a test of the global psychological immune system, which appears more robust than we would have guessed. When familiar sources of enjoyment evaporated in the spring of 2020, people got creative. They participated in drive-by birthday parties, mutual-assistance groups, virtual cocktail evenings with old friends, and nightly cheers for health-care workers. Some people got really good at baking. Many found a way to reweave their social tapestry. Indeed, across multiple large data sets, levels of loneliness showed only a modest increase, with 13.8 percent of adults in the U.S. reporting always or often feeling lonely in April 2020, compared with 11 percent in spring 2018.
But these broad trends and averages shouldnt erase the real strugglesimmense pain, overwhelming loss, financial hardshipsthat so many people have faced over the past 17 months. For example, that 2.8 percent increase in the number of Americans reporting loneliness last spring represents 7 million people. Like so many aspects of the pandemic, the coronaviruss mental-health toll was not distributed evenly. Early on, some segments of the populationincluding women and parents of young childrenexhibited an especially pronounced increase in overall psychological distress. As the pandemic progressed, lasting mental-health challenges disproportionately affected people who were facing financial issues, individuals who got sick with COVID-19, and those who had been struggling with physical and mental-health disorders prior to the pandemic. The resilience of the population as a whole does not relieve leaders of their responsibility to provide tangible support and access to mental-health services to those people who have endured the most intense distress and who are at the greatest ongoing risk.
But the astonishing resilience that most people have exhibited in the face of the sudden changes brought on by the pandemic holds its own lessons. We learned that people can handle temporary changes to their lifestylesuch as working from home, giving up travel, or even going into isolationbetter than some policy makers seemed to assume.
As we look ahead to the worlds next great challengesincluding a future pandemicwe need to remember this hard-won lesson: Human beings are not passive victims of change but active stewards of our own well-being. This knowledge should empower us to make the disruptive changes our societies may require, even as we support the individuals and communities that have been hit hardest.
