Congresswoman Uifaatali Amata reports that she received the COVID 19 vaccine Saturday, and she encourages people to take the vaccine as it becomes available. “It was not difficult and I have not ...Read more
In American Samoa, and recently many other communities, the traditional doctor’s house call is making a comeback. Modern developments such as advanced mapping, automated workflow, telemedicine ...Read more
Herd immunity is a concept used for vaccination in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached. We heard the term often during the measles ...Read more
The trials on the Pfizer vaccine documented side effects from some of the more than 40,000 people whom the vaccine was tested on. The side effects which were explained by the chair and members of ...Read more
New Zealand and Pacific Insurer, Tower, which trades as National Pacific Insurance in the two Samoa and Tonga, announces it will be rolling out new digital technology to make life easier for its ...Read more
The Parents of Children with Special Needs Network, in collaboration with the DOH Family 2 Family Center, DOH Helping Hands Early Intervention Program, and Alofa Tunoa Samoa Medical Supply, is ...Read more
The two topics on the agenda of the Coronavirus Task Force on Friday were the vaccine Distribution Plan and Repatriation Plan. Reporting on the meeting, Chairman Iulogologo Joseph Pereira said ...Read more
Today’s the first day of a four-week IT Work Academy designed to train participants in making use of the internet to promote their work skills and land jobs or launch web based businesses and ...Read more
The experience that a team of healthcare providers from Hawaii gained when they carried out vaccinations during last year’s measles outbreak in Samoa will be valuable as they prepare to vaccinate ...Read more
The US House of representatives yesterday passed and sent to the Senate a bipartisan small business bill that Congresswoman Uifaatali Amata introduced. The Parity for HUBZone Appeals Act (H.R. ...Read more
