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Black volunteers give COVID-19 vaccine trials a shot in the arm By Naomi Ishisaka, The Seattle Times Published: December 20, 2020, 11:49am Share: When Timothy Scott got the call to participate in the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial, he didn’t hesitate. “I was like, ‘Let’s go. Put me in.’ We have to bring this disease to an end,” Scott said. When coronavirus hit, it shook Scott, 46, to his core. The Des Moines, Wash., father of five said the virus “put a fear in ...

By News@TheU 12-15-2020 Take a look at a month-by-month recap of the biggest stories at the University of Miami during the past year. From a pandemic that forced the migration of spring semester classes to an online environment, to a new dean for the College of Engineering, to a Super Bowl halftime performance by the Band of the Hour, to a record-breaking gift for the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, 2020 proved to be a very unusual year  for the University of Miami. January The Pla...

Natick psychiatrist accused of billing Medicare, private insurance companies for more than $10 million in treatments he did not provide Updated Dec 10, 2020; Facebook Share Gustavo Kinrys, a Natick psychiatrist, is accused of billing Medicare and private insurance companies more than $10 million in treatments he did not provide and then lying to investigators in an attempt to conceal his misdeeds, according to the federal authorities. “Fraud in the Medicare system is a persistent, long-term ...