Essential workers illustrate the Heart of the Hutch
While buildings remain more than half empty, hundreds of people keep science going and campus running amid pandemic Isma Lubega stands in front of his car in Kampala, Uganda. Lubega is the driver for the UCI-Fred Hutch Collaboration, a program born out of a longstanding relationship between Fred Hutch’s Global Oncology program and the Uganda Cancer Institute. Photo courtesy of Raquel Sanchez / Fred Hutch Global Oncology
Heart of the Hutch: Essential Worker edition
We have been profiling people who illustrate the culture and spirit of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with the Heart of the Hutch series. This edition focuses on the essential workers.
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Elderly Floridians will get vaccine before essential workers, DeSantis says
âWe are not going to put young, healthy workers ahead of our elderly, vulnerable population,â DeSantis said.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis watches people be vaccinated for COVID-19 during a news event in The Villages on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. [ The Florida Channel ]
Published Dec. 22, 2020
Updated Dec. 22, 2020
TALLAHASSEE â Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday declared elderly Floridians will be next in line to get vaccinated for COVID-19, before essential workers and younger people with underlying health conditions, cementing the stateâs position in a shifting public health policy debate.
During a press conference in The Villages retirement community, DeSantis said the state will be prioritizing people over the age of 70 for the next round of vaccine doses. He bristled at proposed recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that would give the vaccine to essential workers
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In June, Ravindra Gupta, a virologist at the University of Cambridge, heard about a cancer patient who had come into a local hospital the month before with COVID-19 and was still shedding virus. The patient was being treated for a lymphoma that had relapsed and had been given rituximab, a drug that depletes antibody-producing B cells. That made it hard for him to shake the infection with SARS-CoV-2.
Gupta, who studies how resistance to HIV drugs arises, became interested in the case and helped treat the patient, who died in August, 101 days after his COVID-19 diagnosis, despite being given the antiviral drug remdesivir and two rounds of plasma from recovered patients, which contained antibodies against the virus. When Gupta studied genome sequences from the coronavirus that infected the patient, he discovered that SARS-CoV-2 had acquired several mutations that might have allowed
I have an obligation to swing for the fences
Philanthropic funds at just the right time helped Mark Roth plumb the secrets of immortality December 21, 2020 • By Sabrina Richards / Fred Hutch News Service Dr. Mark Roth and other Hutch scientists explain why fearless science matters. StraightEIGHT Films
Tiptoeing toward immortality will only get you so far. Eventually, you need to leap.
Seventeen years ago, Dr. Mark Roth, a basic scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, knew he’d tiptoed as far as possible in his search for the biological key to immortality. He had discovered what he could about suspended animation, a dormant state that can extend life under harsh conditions, by studying oxygen deprivation in flies and worms.
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