Last Updated: 02/10/2021 2:48 pm Vanessa Green at the 2018 Black Women’s March: Continuing the Legacy of Harriet Tubman at the Tappan Zee/Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge in Tarrytown. The summer of 2020 jolted America out of a complacent slumber. George Floyd didn t walk into a Minneapolis convenience store foreseeing his death, but his lynching reminded many Americans of the precarity of Black life when confronted with maximum-force policing. It only took a 911 call over Floyd s alleged counterfeit $20 bill to seal his death by Minneapolis police. Grotesque public killings like Floyd s disturb the conscience of many. But for Black people, they re also routine reminders of what often happens when they encounter police: harassment, or worse, death.
California s grim month: One-third of all COVID deaths so far were reported in January
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California has begun a limited reopening, and officials are hopeful that the worst of the winter surge is over. But the astonishing deadliness of the surge has just now begun to come into focus.
One datapoint in particular stands out: More than one-third of deaths in California thus far in the pandemic were reported in January.
According to data from The Chronicle’s Coronavirus Tracker, the state is approaching 40,000 coronavirus deaths. So far in January, 13,594 deaths have been reported. That’s twice as many as the 6,772 deaths reported in December. Another alarming statistic: More than half of the coronavirus deaths in California, measured across the 10 months of the pandemic, were reported in December and January.
Early life exposure to food insecurity has lasting effects, study finds
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Last Updated January 27, 2021
A research article published Jan. 2 observed Latinx farmworker children and found that exposure to food insecurity early in life can have a lasting impact on children’s growth.
To see if there was an association between early life exposure and food insecurity and obesity, researchers studied pregnant women and their children from the Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas, a running birth cohort study. These women are mostly Latinx and from households with agricultural workers, according to Ryan Gamba, study lead author, UC Berkeley alumnus and assistant professor at California State University, East Bay.
UC Berkeley School of Public Health will launch its Global Public Health Fellowship Program as a result of a $1.4 million gift from Gilead Sciences.
The program which seeks to address new and emerging public health challenges is a continuation of a 2018 pilot program that sought to bolster public health capacity, specifically within “scientifically lagging countries,” according to School of Public Health spokesperson Elise Proulx. With the granted funding, the program seeks to expand and welcome 25 additional fellows, making for a total of 30.
“We at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health were extremely happy to get the support from Gilead to launch the UC Berkeley Global Public Health Fellowship Program,” Proulx said in an email. “This will help us build domestic and international capacity to respond to emerging global health challenges through public health research, policy and practice.”