• Vancouver, BC, July 21, 2020 - If you look around, it's starting to feel like everyone is on social media these days-scrolling through TikTok videos, engaging with photos and stories on Instagram, carrying out conversations on Twitter or connecting with people on Facebook. (hootsuite.com)
  • It might not be everyone, but according to the latest Digital 2020 report from Hootsuite, and We Are Social, more than half the world's population now uses social media. (hootsuite.com)
  • Just under half (47%) felt people aged 70 and above were most likely to have reported feeling lonely at the start of the first national lockdown in 2020. (walesonline.co.uk)
  • CAP's report found that nearly half of transgender people - and 68 percent of transgender people of color - reported having experienced mistreatment at the hands of a medical provider, including refusal of care and verbal or physical abuse, in the year before the survey, which took place in June 2020. (nbcnews.com)
  • While the freeze was in effect, Medicaid enrollment swelled by nearly one-third, from 71 million people in February 2020 to 94 million in April 2023. (kwtx.com)
  • Amanda Litman, executive director of the organization Run for Something, which recruits and supports young Democratic candidates for public office, tweeted that by amassing more than half a million viewers across several different livestreams, Ocasio-Cortez held 'the biggest Get Out the Vote rally of 2020. (commondreams.org)
  • u201cIf you add up viewers across the various streams, more than half a million people are watching @AOC on Twitch \u2014 she\u2019s hosting the biggest GOTV rally of 2020. (commondreams.org)
  • During October 2017 to February 2020 (all but the last five months of the IMPACT trial), 978 people who were recorded by GUMCAD, the UK's STI surveillance system, as having a different gender to the one assigned to them at birth, attended a sexual health clinic. (aidsmap.com)
  • In April 2020, Virginia became the first state in the South to pass non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people in housing, employment and public spaces after Governor Ralph Northam signed the Virginia Values Act . (localnews8.com)
  • Between 2019 and 2020, bills targeting transgender people nearly tripled, according to the report. (localnews8.com)
  • The authors outline a road map of solutions, including legislative protections for LGBTQ people and better competency training for medical providers. (nbcnews.com)
  • Half of US states fail to offer basic protections for LGBTQ people, according to a report by the country's largest LGBTQ advocacy group. (localnews8.com)
  • Worldwide social media user numbers have surged by more than 10 percent over the past 12 months, with an average of more than 1 million people using social media for the first time every day since this time last year . (hootsuite.com)
  • Nearly 2.5 million people in the Central African Republic - half the population - are now facing hunger, double the figure from a year ago, the main food aid agency of the United Nations said Wednesday…" (Gladstone, 1/20). (kff.org)
  • Almost half a million people fled their homes and remain displaced within the country, while more than 450,000 have fled to neighboring countries, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)…" (Mis, 1/21). (kff.org)
  • The International Labour Organization estimates that 21 million people are forced labourers, generating an estimated $150 bn in profits each year. (counterpunch.org)
  • The 500,000 who had voted in the first 27 hours of the poll represents a sizeable chunk of the 3.47 million people who registered to vote at elections in 2012. (straitstimes.com)
  • Under the "one country, two systems" agreement reached when the city of seven million people was handed over from Britain to Communist-ruled China in 1997, Hong Kong has guaranteed civil liberties not enjoyed on the mainland, including free speech and the right to protest. (straitstimes.com)
  • In 2011, Somalia experienced a devastating famine that killed over a quarter of a million people - half of them children under the age of five. (oxfam.org)
  • A decade after governments, donors and aid organizations said they would not let famine return, 181 million people are forecast to be in crisis levels and above of hunger. (oxfam.org)
  • About 165 million people live in 25 states with active citizen initiative or referendum provisions, which let residents bypass the legislature to amend the constitution, enact laws or repeal those passed by elected officials. (wtnh.com)
  • About 167 million people live in 25 other states where such direct democracy is not currently an option. (wtnh.com)
  • Last year, over 10 million people trusted us to help them with some of the biggest issues in their lives. (ageuk.org.uk)
  • He speaks for the 40 million people living with HIV. (who.int)
  • Six million people are in urgent need of antiretroviral treatment today. (who.int)
  • More than 76 million people are directly or indirectly affected by conflict, environmental threats and natural disasters, while more than 62 million people are in direct need of health care services. (who.int)
  • If, as the report claims, global poverty figures are "understated by as much as a quarter," then more than 2.5 billion people, or over a third of the world's population, survive on less than $2 per day. (wsws.org)
  • The world's richest 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population, according to a report by the charity Oxfam. (aljazeera.com)
  • Oxfam calculated that 85 people had as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity in 2014, a staggering finding that researchers with the anti-poverty organization discovered through crunching numbers provided by Forbes magazine in its rich list and by the investment bank Credit Suisse in its global wealth distribution report. (counterpunch.org)
  • It is simply unacceptable that the poorest half of the world population owns no more than a small group of the global super-rich, so few you could fit them all on a single coach. (aljazeera.com)
  • A new study by the UK's Overseas Development Institute (ODI) reports that the number of people globally living on less than $1.25 per day is likely to be far higher than the already staggering 1.2 billion estimated by the World Bank. (wsws.org)
  • 5 allows us to reach millions of people globally with accurate and reliable resources about HIV prevention and treatment. (aidsmap.com)
  • Almost 30 million displaced people - more than half of all displaced persons globally - originate from the Region. (who.int)
  • Homeless people's life expectancy half of average in B.C. (cbc.ca)
  • A new report released by a Vancouver-area street magazine says the life expectancy of a homeless person is about half that of the average British Columbian. (cbc.ca)
  • The study looked at statistics between 2006 and 2013 and found that the average age at death of a homeless person is between 40 and 49 years old, while the life expectancy of the average British Columbian is around 82 years old. (cbc.ca)
  • The report, from a group that supports homeless people in Vancouver and Victoria, says homelessness is a life-threatening health hazard and steps need to be taken to prevent deaths related to housing insecurity. (cbc.ca)
  • The most deprived layers of society-people who are homeless, or are living in dangerous situations that researchers cannot access-are left uncounted by household surveys, which by design are incapable of covering them. (wsws.org)
  • I believe that that amount of money could provide a home for every homeless person in the entire Puget Sound region. (thestranger.com)
  • Almost half of UK adults believe young people have acted selfishly during the coronavirus pandemic, research has suggested. (walesonline.co.uk)
  • Some 49% of adults said they feel young people have been selfish by ignoring restrictions on their freedoms because of the lower risk to them. (walesonline.co.uk)
  • Studies aim to give information that will be applicable to a large group of people (e.g. adults with diagnosed HIV in the UK). (aidsmap.com)
  • Half of adults diagnosed with coronavirus may not be contagious, the results of a coronavirus prevalence study conducted by the University of Tartu suggest. (err.ee)
  • Participation in smaller events and visiting restaurants is growing both among younger adults and people aged 40-64. (err.ee)
  • Infants, children, adolescents, adults and older people are suffering from one or more of the multiple forms of malnutrition, including wasting, deficiencies of iodine, vitamin A and iron, in addition to scurvy, pellagra and beriberi. (who.int)
  • The reality is that all age groups, including the young, have been remarkably compliant with extraordinary restrictions on their lives during the Covid-19 pandemic, mostly to protect older and vulnerable people. (walesonline.co.uk)
  • About 500,000 people who recently lost Medicaid coverage are regaining their health insurance while states scramble to fix computer systems that didn't properly evaluate people's eligibility after the end of the coronavirus pandemic, federal officials said Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. (kwtx.com)
  • AP) - About 500,000 people who recently lost Medicaid coverage are regaining their health insurance while states scramble fix computer systems that didn't properly evaluate people's eligibility after the end of the coronavirus pandemic, federal officials said Thursday. (kwtx.com)
  • Compounded by conflicts forcing people out of their homes, and COVID-19 economic turmoil, the drought has eroded economic reserves and decimated people's last ability to cope. (oxfam.org)
  • There was little difference in views across the generations, with younger cohorts also more likely than not to think that young people have acted selfishly. (walesonline.co.uk)
  • The results suggest older people are overwhelmingly perceived to have suffered the most, but they are more likely than younger people to report having experienced no negative effects. (walesonline.co.uk)
  • Some 44% of respondents feel older people have suffered the most, despite the older generation being roughly twice as likely as younger respondents to say they have suffered no real effects on their lives. (walesonline.co.uk)
  • However, urban community groups have assessed the poverty line to be $4.74 per day, bumping the country's poverty rate to nearly half the population at 41.64 percent. (wsws.org)
  • Nearly half of the livestock in East Africa has perished. (oxfam.org)
  • Nearly half a million are already facing starvation. (oxfam.org)
  • Nearly half (46%) of all new STIs in the country occur among young people (ages 15-24). (cdc.gov)
  • Oxfam reports that just 80 people possess the same quantity of wealth as 3.5 billion others. (truthdig.com)
  • Because Oxfam includes among the bottom 50 percent people in the advanced capitalist countries of the Global North who have a net worth of less than zero due to debt, some critics might argue that these people are nonetheless "income-rich" because they have credit available to them and thus distort the inequality outcome. (counterpunch.org)
  • Oxfam warned today that it cannot reach around 450,000 or more people in Gaza because of fighting and aerial bombardment. (oxfam.org.uk)
  • Oxfam warns that it could take weeks to start meaningful repairs and organise some recovery and resumption of normality for people in Gaza, even if a ceasefire was declared today. (oxfam.org.uk)
  • Oxfam said wealth was being concentrated in the hands of increasingly fewer people, while the world's poorest continued to get poorer. (aljazeera.com)
  • Nearly a third of those who have had a possible contact or close contact with an infected person change nothing in their behavior after such contact. (err.ee)
  • Brace's experience in the ER - and the impact that health care discrimination had on their life - is something many trans people face and fear when they try to get care, according to a report released Wednesday by the Center for American Progress, or CAP, a liberal think tank. (nbcnews.com)
  • Discrimination, among other factors, prevents trans people from seeking necessary care, which leads to health disparities that can affect many other areas of their lives, the report found. (nbcnews.com)
  • There is no support for trans people, and so most avoid seeking care. (nbcnews.com)
  • Ducar said that as a health care provider and a trans woman, she knows there's a dearth of affirming care for trans people across the country. (nbcnews.com)
  • The CAP report said harassment and discrimination "contribute to high rates of stress," and - along with social determinants of health - make trans people "more likely to experience poor health outcomes. (nbcnews.com)
  • Beijing ( AsiaNews / Agencies) - Pollution in China kills between 350 and 500 thousand people each year. (asianews.it)
  • But no more than a couple thousand people were affected in Nebraska, said state Medicaid Director Kevin Bagley. (kwtx.com)
  • The onus of addressing discrimination against transgender people should fall on medical institutions, one of the report's authors said. (nbcnews.com)
  • Discrimination can then prevent people from seeking future care, the survey found: 28 percent of transgender people, including 22 percent of transgender people of color, reported having postponed or not gotten necessary medical care for fear of discrimination. (nbcnews.com)
  • WASHINGTON-In 2019, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspected fewer than one-half of 1% of U.S. firms it regulated, the non-partisan watchdog Government Accountability Office told Congress on May 25. (peoplesworld.org)
  • All citations were issued as a result of inspections, and OSHA and the agency inspects only a small percentage of all establishments it oversees each year-less than one-half of 1% in fiscal year 2019, for example," Costa reported. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Who will be Time's 2023 Person of the Year? (nbclosangeles.com)
  • FILE - Rod Sommer stands in a partitioned booth and fills out his ballot during early in-person voting at the Hamilton County Board of Elections in Cincinnati, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (wtnh.com)
  • If a half marathon is not for you, there is also a 10K option with a 15+age limit! (missingpeople.org.uk)
  • I'd signed up for the Monterey Bay half marathon with my oldest daughter and son. (medscape.com)
  • About 1 in every 200,000 runners has a cardiac arrest during a half marathon. (medscape.com)
  • Half of burglaries in Britain now take place while householders are inside their homes, as thieves become emboldened by police inaction. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • The head of the monitoring study and University of Tartu professor of family medicine Ruth Kalda said researchers compared the information from the pre-test survey with the results of the PCR test and antibody analysis to estimate the virus prevalence and proportion of people who have gained immunity to the virus. (err.ee)
  • In a new survey, researchers working on behalf of security firm Verisure spoke to more than 1,000 victims of burglary, nearly of half of whom had been targeted within the last year. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • SHRM found that over half (52 percent) of 1,000 U.S. workers would choose to permanently work from home on a full-time basis if given the option. (shrm.org)
  • This allows the conclusion to be made that although the estimated number of coronavirus-positive people in the adult population is 17,900, an average of 8,700 of them are infectious. (err.ee)
  • Until there is a growth in the number of people requiring hospital care, including intensive care, due to the coronavirus, and the number of vaccinated risk group members is low, it is inevitable to take all precautions that help curb the spread of the virus," Kalda said. (err.ee)
  • Professor Chopik told the Journal of Research in Personality this is 'because it is tied to health and the general outlook people have about getting older. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • We find the feelings of 'what if' are quite acute in those people because they were literally feet away from where it happened, you often hear reports of burglars carrying knives and that causes real fear," she said. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • One person on average is likely dying every 48 seconds from acute hunger. (oxfam.org)
  • People who suffer from acute malnutrition are far more likely to become sick and die. (who.int)
  • Obviously, when you have a cardiac arrest, it's easier to get help quick with a lot of people around. (medscape.com)
  • How Did 80 People Get Half of the World's Wealth? (truthdig.com)
  • Lawson adds, "Our figures show that the top group of people - the 80 people now - and of the billionaires… about a third now inherited their wealth. (truthdig.com)
  • At the very top, this year's data finds that collectively the richest eight individuals have a net wealth of $426 bn, which is the same as the net wealth of the bottom half of humanity. (counterpunch.org)
  • E]stimates from Credit Suisse find that collectively the poorest 50% of people have less than a quarter of 1% of global net wealth. (counterpunch.org)
  • Nine percent of the people in this group have negative wealth, and most of these people live in richer countries where student debt and other credit facilities are available. (counterpunch.org)
  • M]any people experiencing poverty around the world are seeing an erosion of their main source of wealth - namely land, natural resources and homes - as a consequence of insecure land rights, land grabbing, land fragmentation and erosion, climate change, urban eviction and forced displacement. (counterpunch.org)
  • Super-rich individuals saw an increase of 44 percent since 2010, taking their cumulative wealth to $1.76 trillion - equivalent to the total owned by 3.5 billion of the world's poorest people. (aljazeera.com)
  • We are a global movement of millions of people working to end poverty. (oxfam.org.uk)
  • There could be as many as a quarter more people living on less than $1.25 a day than current estimates suggest, because they have been missed out of surveys," the report notes, suggesting that the total number of people living in extreme poverty could be undercounted by as much as 350 million. (wsws.org)
  • If one were to define poverty as living on less than $5 per day, over four billion people, that is, two-thirds of the human population, qualify as impoverished, according to World Bank estimates. (wsws.org)
  • The most up-to-date estimate of people living in extreme poverty was published almost four years ago. (wsws.org)
  • Consider the social, cultural & economic conditions that make it more difficult for some sexually active people to stay healthy (e.g., poverty, unstable housing, drug use, lack of medical insurance or medical home, high burden of STIs in some communities). (cdc.gov)
  • The number of people facing extreme hunger in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has more than doubled since last year, from over 10 million to over 23 million today. (oxfam.org)
  • Separate research from the Office for National Statistics suggests young people aged 16-24 were most likely to feel lonely at this time. (walesonline.co.uk)
  • Whether voters elect them because they are successful or because people of modest means do not run, or for other reasons, is unclear, but struggling Americans should not assume that their elected officials understand their circumstances. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • n\nHot take, I know, but we should elect more young people! (commondreams.org)
  • HCL systems powered by Dexcom real-time CGM have been proven to significantly improve outcomes - giving people with diabetes more confidence in their diabetes management 4-6, 8-11 . (businesswire.com)
  • Knapinski said a total of 608,000 people were in attendance this year. (wbay.com)
  • In our 35th year we're asking people to donate £35 - that's just £1 for every year we've been providing life-changing information. (aidsmap.com)
  • Ipsos MORI's latest Political Pulse survey reveals around half (49%) of Britons think the country is heading in the wrong direction (+5 since September) - the highest proportion since the start of the year. (londonlovesbusiness.com)
  • The leaky boat crewed by Zainudin was intercepted by Australian authorities in May last year and he and another fisherman were charged with aggravated people smuggling. (abc.net.au)
  • CDC's latest estimates indicate that 20% of the U.S. population - approximately one in five people - had an STI on any given day in 2018, and STIs acquired that year cost the American healthcare system nearly $16 billion in direct medical costs alone. (cdc.gov)
  • LONDON--( BUSINESS WIRE )--DexCom, Inc. (NASDAQ: DXCM), a global leader in real-time continuous glucose monitoring (rtCGM) for people with diabetes, announced today new market research which found 79% of people struggle to keep their glucose levels in range, and that almost half (45%) don't understand what a Hybrid Closed Loop System (HCL) is or how HCL could benefit them 1-2 . (businesswire.com)
  • A study comparing HIV risk factors in trans and non-binary people who did, and did not, take part in the PrEP IMPACT study has found that just over half the people who attended sexual health services in England during the period of the IMPACT trial ended up participating in it. (aidsmap.com)
  • A study led by University of Florida political scientist Daniel Smith found that legislatures with close political divisions and weaker party organizations were more likely to try to appeal to voters by proposing to give people the power to make their own laws. (wtnh.com)
  • An Australian judge says he has extended the only leniency he can to an Indonesian fisherman found guilty of people smuggling by imposing the lowest possible sentence. (abc.net.au)
  • They might even have known that if you were found guilty of people smuggling in Australia the sentencing judge would have no choice but to sentence you to a lengthy term of imprisonment. (abc.net.au)
  • Dublin, found in people. (cdc.gov)
  • Here's how, with your support, Age UK is supporting older people through the cost of living crisis. (ageuk.org.uk)
  • And fewer than half of the covered firms responded electronically. (peoplesworld.org)
  • The report shows that 3.96 billion people use social media today-that's approximately 51 percent of the global population . (hootsuite.com)
  • With a large number of social media companies restricting the use of their platforms to people aged 13 and above, nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of the world's total 'eligible' population now uses social media. (hootsuite.com)
  • In 2010 some 388 people owned as much as the world's poorest 50 percent. (aljazeera.com)
  • This means that an estimated 11 percent in the adult population, or about 120,800 people, have antibodies. (err.ee)
  • The study revealed that most of the tested people had gained antibodies from a known, 39 percent, or unknown, 24 percent, illness. (err.ee)
  • Nearly 36 percent of the tested persons had acquired antibodies from vaccination with one dose, 8 percent, or two doses, 28 percent. (err.ee)
  • Older people want to do more exercise! (ageuk.org.uk)
  • Whilst the new research shows many older people are keen walkers (82%) and often undertake activities around the home such as gardening (75%), only 8% currently go to the gym regularly and 8% do aerobic exercise(2). (ageuk.org.uk)
  • However, older people are keen to take part in more exercise and try something new. (ageuk.org.uk)
  • Brands can now reach 1.08 billion people using ads on Instagram, with the platform adding 111 million new users -more than 1 million a day - to its advertising reach in the past three months. (hootsuite.com)
  • Eight people have as much as 3.7 billion people. (counterpunch.org)
  • AOC + @IlhanMN are geniuses to embrace the culture and engage people where they are at. (commondreams.org)
  • Concerted efforts were made by trans community advocates and the specialist sexual health service CliniQ in London to engage trans and non-binary people. (aidsmap.com)
  • Half of the measurements were used to develop exposure estimates for unmeasured person days. (cdc.gov)
  • Antibodies develop in people in the second or third week of infection or as a result of vaccination. (err.ee)
  • The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends annual flu vaccination for all persons aged ≥6 months who do not have contraindications to vaccination. (cdc.gov)
  • People not visiting a provider during the flu season have many convenient places they can go for a flu vaccination. (cdc.gov)
  • For instance, people who had been diagnosed with a bacterial sexually transmitted infection were much more likely to be recruited into the IMPACT trial than ones who had not. (aidsmap.com)
  • At the same time, we will fully support every effort to make sure people know how to prevent HIV infection and are able to do so. (who.int)
  • The computer issues affected people in 29 states and the District of Columbia and likely included a significant number of children who should have been eligible for Medicaid at higher income levels even if their parents or caregivers were not, according to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (kwtx.com)
  • The new TA impacts an eligible population of over 150,000 people living with Type 1 diabetes in England, providing access to HCL systems 3 . (businesswire.com)
  • Those eligible include people living with type 1 diabetes who are under the age of 18 or those who are over 18 with either an HbA1c of 7.5% or who are experiencing disabling hypoglycaemia, the TA also impacts women who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, and people already using an insulin pump 3 . (businesswire.com)
  • Your sighting of a missing person could make a difference in a crucial time. (missingpeople.org.uk)
  • The working classes are generally represented as hard working and tough people, who make the best of their situation. (lu.se)
  • Yet, it is important to highlight that half of all Americans live in states that lack those protections. (localnews8.com)
  • Has the death rate from drug overdoses in the U.S. increased most rapidly among young people over the last decade and a half? (cdc.gov)
  • Young people and women face some of the biggest impacts and most significant consequences of STIs. (cdc.gov)
  • For all individuals who are sexually active - particularly young people and women - STI screening and prompt treatment (if infected) are critical to protect a person's health and prevent transmission to others. (cdc.gov)
  • To the millions of people who are once again on the edge of starvation we have failed in that promise. (oxfam.org)
  • Typical Salmonella infections in people often cause no symptoms at all, or cause diarrhea, fever, and cramps that generally improve in a few days without specific treatment. (cdc.gov)
  • We described Dublin infections in people in more detail than ever before in terms of incidence, demographics, severity of disease, outbreaks and foods responsible for illnesses, and antimicrobial resistance patterns over time. (cdc.gov)
  • Yup, time to start tossing people to the wolves and cancel shows that keep people on Netflix. (pocketables.com)
  • In all, Center for Responsive Politics identified 271 millionaires elected to federal office- about half the total membership of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • It's unfortunately not uncommon to see people who have experienced such high levels of discrimination and then forgo the routine visits, then perhaps even forgo an urgent care visit, which then turns into an emergency care visit," she said. (nbcnews.com)
  • Ibado on her daily round to visit internal displaced people in a camp near Burao, in Somaliland. (oxfam.org)
  • We have launched a new email communication so that you can be aware of new missing person appeals and share them far and wide! (missingpeople.org.uk)
  • What - after threatening customers you announced a price hike for the same old crappy service and that people were not going to be able to share with their exes and you lost 200,000 subscribers? (pocketables.com)
  • Well, that's exactly what's in this collection of fascinating photos of stuff people saw and just had to share. (ebaumsworld.com)
  • This is probably the best part, cause we didn't really know what to expect, we're not big plane people, but the air shows pretty cool," said Kristin Pretz, a Markesan resident. (wbay.com)
  • More than one in five (22%) also mentioned that they prefer to exercise in a group where they may or may not know people(4). (ageuk.org.uk)
  • People living in those countries suffer from one of more forms of malnutrition. (who.int)
  • It was the idea of bringing everybody back together to have this event to see everybody once again and see just an amazing collection of airplanes and people, and activities throughout the entire 7 days," said Dick Knapiniski, EAA Communications Director. (wbay.com)
  • This position description is intended to guide the activities of the person in this position and is not intended to limit the thinking and creativity of the person as to the work of this function nor is it intended that this describe all the work that may be required of the person in this position. (disabledperson.com)
  • All great ideas, if you don't care about billions of people dying. (powerlineblog.com)
  • We are a global team of more than 850 people in 15 offices around the world with a common purpose: to connect people and brands in meaningful ways. (hootsuite.com)
  • People are starving not because the world lacks food or money, but for a dismal lack of political courage. (oxfam.org)
  • He also announced he would be signing an Executive Order directing that all flags across NJ be lowered to half-staff indefinitely in honor of those who have died from the virus around the world. (revolutionradio.org)
  • Today, not many people are familiar with Fy og Bi.1 They are largely forgotten around the world. (lu.se)