Rantz: WA Dept of Health lets providers deny vaccines to white people for equity April 21, 2021 at 7:41 pm
WENATCHEE, WA - JANUARY 26: A pharmacist prepares COVID-19 vaccines for patients arriving at Town Toyota Center on January 26, 2021 in Wenatchee, Washington. As Washington opens several mass vaccination sites this week, Gov. Jay Inslee announced that 500,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the state. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)
The Washington State Department of Health lets providers deny vaccines to white people in a race-exclusionary system they claim creates equity and removes barriers. It does neither.
The African American Reach and Teach Health Ministry (AARTH) is a vaccine provider in Washington state. Eligible recipients can sign up for vaccines using their online scheduler. But if you’re white, you’re not able to access any open vaccine appointments.
Obliteride 2021 gears up for second virtual season
Hutch event aims to again draw a global roster of participants
Thank you to the Obliteride 2020 participants. Join us again this year!
Obliteride, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s annual fundraiser and community event, will be a virtual experience again for 2021 uniting participants worldwide of all ages and abilities to support cancer research.
Now in its ninth year, Obliteride typically welcomes thousands of participants to Seattle to bike, walk, or run and to fundraise for cancer research. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led organizers to replace the in-person event with a successful virtual season. A record 3,197 people of all ages from all 50 U.S. states, 17 countries and all seven continents biked, walked, kayaked, climbed, swam and more. They were supported by more than 13,000 donors and raised more than $3.2 million for lifesaving research.
Careful pruning guides neuron function
Accessory brain cells called glial cells nibble nerve cells to affect worm memory, behavior even at the single-cell level April 6, 2021 • By Sabrina Richards / Fred Hutch News Service Dr. Aakanksha Singhvi (right) and graduate student Stephan Raiders (left) discuss their work on glial cells, critical brain cells that help neurons function properly. Photo by Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service
The neurons in our brains and bodies do amazing things: sense the outside world, transmit information, guide our behavior. But they don’t do it alone.
Using tiny worms with well-mapped nervous systems, scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center answered a longstanding question about the role of accessory brain cells called glial cells in supporting neuron function. Their study was published recently in the journal eLife.
Viruses mutate all the time, including the coronavirus that’s caused the global Covid-19 pandemic. Although most of the changes are innocuous, several mutants have sparked alarm, and three variants that emerged in the U.K., South Africa and Brazil have caused particular concern as they spread worldwide. Studies suggest they are more contagious, and some evidence points to one of them being more deadly and another driving reinfections. Vaccine developers are working on new versions after early da
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