Springfield, IL–(ENEWSPF)–January 15, 2010 Illinois H1N1 CumulativeVaccine Allocation*(As of January 13, 2010) Allocated 4,365,800 Ordered 3,544,300 Shipped 3,536,720 * The above table represents H1N1 vaccine allocation for the 10 million people in Illinois who live outside the city of Chicago. Chicago receives an H1N1 vaccine allotment for its3 million residents[Read More…]
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Readout of President Obama’s Call with President Preval of Haiti, January 15, 2010
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 15, 2010. President Obama spoke for roughly thirty minutes with President Preval of Haiti this morning. President Obama said that the world has been devastated by the loss and suffering in Haiti, and pledged the full support of the American people for the government and people of Haiti[Read More…]
O’Reilly Ignores Haiti To Cover Whaling, Wild Horses And Jon Stewart
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– As the full scope of the devastation in Haiti was just beginning to be understood Wednesday, MSNBC and CNN devoted extensive coverage to the crisis, including during their primetime coverage. Fox News did cover the aftermath of the earthquake in its dayside programming, but the Three Musketeers —[Read More…]
Robertson’s ‘True Story’: Haiti ‘Swore A Pact To The Devil’ To Get ‘Free From The French’ And ‘Ever Since, They Have Been Cursed’
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– From the January 13 edition of Christian Broadcasting Network’s The 700 Club: PAT ROBERTSON: And, you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and[Read More…]
The Right-Wing Media React To Haiti
Commentary By Jamison Foser Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti continues to bring grim news. Estimated death counts range from the tens of thousands to more than 100,000. Haiti’s capital and largest city, Port-au-Prince, sustained massive damage: its hospitals — all of them — destroyed or rendered unusable, the presidential palace[Read More…]
Haiti: Doctors Without Borders Treats More Than 1,000 Patients; Inflatable Hospital on the Way
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2010. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams in Port-au-Prince are treating large numbers of people who suffered fractures, head injuries and other major trauma during and after the January 12 earthquake.More than 1,000 patients have received care in the four tented facilities MSF set up[Read More…]
American Red Cross Releases $10 Million to Help Haiti
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2010. With estimates that as many as three million people may be affected by the catastrophic earthquake which hit Haiti Tuesday, the American Red Cross is releasing an additional $9 million for earthquake relief, bringing its total commitment so far to $10 million to support relief efforts[Read More…]
UN Secretary-General Ban ‘Heartened’ By Scale of Global Response to Help Haiti Quake Victims
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–14 January 2010 – The international community’s outpouring of support to assist victims of this week’s devastating earthquake in Haiti is encouraging, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, as rescue efforts are ramping up in the Caribbean nation with the arrival of teams and supplies from around the world. Although[Read More…]
Haiti: UN Agencies Ramping Up Response Following Deadly Quake
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–14 January 2010 – United Nations agencies are working around the clock to provide urgently needed assistance to the victims of the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti on Tuesday, which is estimated to have affected one third of the Caribbean nation’s nine million people – a population that was[Read More…]
Senators Urge President Obama to Grant Temporary Protected Status to Haitians Living in U.S. in Wake of Devastating Earthquake
BOSTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2010. In the wake of Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, Senators John Kerry and Paul Kirk, together with 13 of their colleagues, today sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitian nationals currently living in the U.S. TPS is[Read More…]
