Deborah Fuller – Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington The two most successful coronavirus vaccines developed in the U.S. – the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines – are …
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Katelyn Jetelina – Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston A year and a half into what the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic on March …
What happens when the COVID-19 vaccines enter the body – a road map for kids and grown-ups
Glenn J Rapsinski – Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellow, University of Pittsburgh The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has changed the way people live around the world. As of …
‘I Don’t Want to Risk My Life for a Paycheck’: Immunosuppressed People Grapple With Returning to Work
By Victoria Knight Elizabeth Groenweghe got a kidney transplant 14 years ago. She now takes several medications to prevent her body from rejecting her transplant organ. But these medications also …
To Combat COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Black Community, Twin Sister Doctors Develop Strategy
As the nation continues to increase vaccination rates, Drs. Delana Wardlaw and Elana McDonald, known as the Twin Sister Doctors, today released a special report offering insightful strategies to combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, …
By Laura Ungar This spring, high school senior Nathan Kassis will play baseball in the shadow of covid-19 — wearing a neck gaiter under his catcher’s mask, sitting 6 feet from …
Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio: bfarmer@wpln.org, @flakebarmer Masks and physical distancing are proving to have major fringe benefits, keeping people from getting all kinds of illnesses — not just covid-19. But it’s …
Vaccine Hesitancy vs. Vaccine Refusal: Nursing Home Staffers Say There’s a Difference
By Aneri Pattani and Kaiser Health News CONCORD, N.C. — It had been months since Tremellia Hobbs had an excuse to bring out the pompoms. Before the pandemic, they were a …
Association of Black Cardiologists Advocates for Vaccinations in Communities of Color
Our nation has reached a grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic: over 400,000 Americans have died from complications of the coronavirus. Black Americans are 3.7 times as likely as white …
Written by: Liz Szabo As an emergency physician, Dr. Eugenia South was in the first group of people to receive a covid vaccine. She received her second dose last week …
