Vaccines are important but they have to be moved around the world. The UAE’s prime geographical location, with 3.5 billion people within a few hours plane ride, makes it a hub for getting vaccines out to the masses.
The State Department has indefinitely suspended the diversity visa program, a mechanism intended to admit individuals from nations with historically low immigration rates to the United States. This decision follows the identification of the Brown University shooting suspect as a green-card holder who entered the country through this program.