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...summer of 2009, shortly after the H1N1 flu pandemic had first emerged, there was a waiting list for the first several million doses of the forthcoming new flu vaccine. At the head of the line, naturally, were the world's richest nations. "Again we see the advantage of affluence," said Margaret Chan, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), at a news conference on July 14. "Again we see access denied by an inability to pay." Describing H1N1 as "entirely new and highly contagious," Chan scolded rich countries at the time for hoarding the "lion's share...
Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's special adviser on pandemic influenza, who will head a delegation to the Strasbourg hearing, counters that the WHO's definition of influenza pandemics has always been based on transmissibility and has never had anything to do with the lethality of a virus; it was no different with H1N1. In response to accusations of overreaction to what has amounted to a mild disease, Fukuda says that once the 2009 H1N1 pandemic had been declared, "WHO consistently made it clear that it could not predict the future course of the pandemic but consistently provided sober, balanced...
When Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker arrived in Cambridge following the 2006-07 season, he took the helm of a mediocre basketball program. During former head coach Frank Sullivan’s final season in charge, the Crimson finished 5-9 in conference play and failed to capture the ever-elusive Ivy League championship...
...Division I basketball programs go, Harvard has one of the more barebones operations,” Orton writes of Harvard basketball’s recent Dark Ages. “With just a head coach, two assistants, and a trainer, the Crimson is the mom-and-pop store in the corporate world of college basketball...
Amaker—who played and coached under Mike Krzyzewski at Duke before becoming head coach at Seton Hall and Michigan—has taken giant steps to turn a titleless team from the Ivy League into one that battles top programs on the court in games and off the court for standout recruits...