Dr. Victor G. Carrión, professor of child and adolescent psychology at Stanford University, will discuss the impact of traumatic stress on mental health, including the COVID-19 pandemic and recent political and social conflicts, during a free online seminar on Tuesday, May 11.
The webinar is sponsored by the Pleasanton-based Alan Hu Foundation, created by Xiaofang Chen and Chih-Ching Hu in memory of their son, who committed suicide in 2018 at the age of 15, after struggling with mental illness.
Carrión is the John A. Turner Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine and vice-chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Research center seeks 60 kids for Las Vegas area COVID-19 vaccine trial
Wake Research-Clinical Research Center of Nevada is looking for 60 children to participate in a vaccine trial.
and last updated 2021-05-05 02:15:10-04
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) â Wake Research-Clinical Research Center of Nevada is looking for 60 children to participate in a vaccine trial.
The WR-CRCN says it hopes to begin trials sometime this week for kids aged 12 to 17.
Those who take part will be compensated.
The trials are for the Novavax vaccine, which has been deemed 96% percent effective against COVID-19.
In the meantime, the American Academy of Pediatrics says children now make up a fifth of new COVID-19 cases in the United States.
Child COVID Cases Are Highest in These States
On 5/5/21 at 10:25 AM EDT
Child COVID-19 cases accounted for nearly 25 percent of new infections reported over one week in late April, according to a joint report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children s Hospital Association.
The number of child COVID-19 cases per 100,000 children was highest in several states across the Midwest and the southern and eastern regions, according to the April 29 report.
Of the 319,601 new infections reported from April 22 to 29, children represented 22.4 percent (71,649 cases) of the total, according to the research, which is based on the best publicly available data on child cases at the state level.