Health & Healthcare

The spike in coronavirus cases in India is the worst in the world right now. Currently, the country is battling more than 412,000 active cases of COVID-19, with states like Maharashtra, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh getting hit the hardest.

The Baker Hughes Foundation has announced a $150,000 grant to five organizations that promote food security in local communities. The funds will help provide food and basic services to meet increased demand prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

CNH Industrial partnered up with Healthy RX Consulting located in Oak Brook, Illinois and hosted a pop-up vaccine clinic at its office location in Burr Ridge, Illinois.

International advocacy organization Global Citizen tonight announced that the VAX LIVE: The Concert to Reunite the World campaign helped mobilize over 26 million COVID-19 vaccine doses and $302 million to the ACT-Accelerator to provide equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests, treatments and other medical tools to the world’s most marginalized communities and healthcare workers on the frontlines.

One of the key takeaways from the meeting, and from phase I of CHL UK, was that we tested and learned together for a whole year, but it’s now time to put our energy into what works.

FedEx, with close to 700 aircraft, benefited from the lockdown home-delivery bump with record quarterly earnings, partly by picking up slack from canceled flights. In December, the company also delivered the first COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.

The pandemic has seen it go above and beyond, and unleashed innovation on an unprecedented scale. Now we need to decide what to take forward from this tumultuous period, and how we can integrate it into a new, better normal for healthcare.

Qualcomm Technologies is supporting UMTRI with its Smart Intersection project to demonstrate improved automotive and pedestrian safety using C-V2X technology.

By engaging the connection between the visual cortex and other parts of the body through VR experiences, these apps help treat a number of health conditions ranging from stress and anxiety to neurological disorders.

Education experienced a leap in digital transformation over this past year. The glaring inequities in broadband access became even more apparent as many students transitioned to remote learning.