by Pamela Dahlen | Aug 3, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Vaccine ‘ambassadors’ go door to door to combat deep-rooted hesitancy Local-level vaccine “ambassadors” are working with elected officials and local organizations, teams of young people going door to door distributing accurate information about the vaccines and...
by Pamela Dahlen | Aug 2, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
There are almost as many reasons for vaccine hesitancy and refusal as there are unvaccinated Americans. But this problem, not the variant, lies at the root of rising infection rates. America is one of the few countries with enough vaccines at its disposal to protect...
by Pamela Dahlen | Jul 30, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
An international effort has revealed that an individual’s genetic inheritance can indeed influence their risk of infection and the severity of disease. Co-authors reported in Nature that more than a dozen parts of the human genome were linked with either enhanced...
by Pamela Dahlen | Jul 29, 2021 | Community, News
Hot climate + cold society = formula for disaster. A decades-old body of research has established that extreme heat hits low-income neighborhoods and communities of color the hardest. They are disproportionately likely to live in buildings with poor ventilation and...
by Pamela Dahlen | Jul 28, 2021 | News
NIH and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy are organizing a series of publicly broadcast listening sessions to get feedback from patient advocacy groups, industry leaders, scientific professional organizations and other stakeholders to contribute...
