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Where the Legend Meets the Road
What the rediscovery of The Joan Anderson Letter means to our understanding of complex Beat figure Neal Cassady and the local family members championing his legacy
March 10, 2021 by DNA
Neal Cassady with wife Carolyn and son John at their Los Gatos home in the 1950s. Myths are stories of our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. Joseph Campbell
As a teenager in suburban Northern New Jersey in the late 1970s, I was desperate for significance, some sort of a sign that life wasn t just a cross between Friday Night Lights and The Stepford Wives. America, I believed, was bereft of meaningful tradition. Every holiday focused on consumerism and turning the wheel of capitalism one expensive inch at a time. I sought to experience something more meaningful, more transcendent, more damn fun.
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Mar 08, 2021 07:12 PM EST
According to a recent report, adults with Down Syndrome are more likely than the general public to suffer from COVID-19, highlighting the importance of vaccinating individuals with the genetic disorder first. Adults with Down Syndrome are three times more likely than the general population to die from COVID-19, as per the researchers. A 40-year-old with Down syndrome has a higher chance of dying from COVID-19 than a 30-year-old in the general population.
Adults with down syndrome 3-10 times more likely to die from COVID-19
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NEW YORK, NY - JULY 12: People with autism chant slogans during the first annual Disability Pride Parade on July 12, 2015 in New York City. The parade calls attention to the rights of people with disabilities and coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Virtual Symposium Showcases Scientists-in-Training
Monday, March 8, 2021
Even in the midst of a global pandemic, life at NIH goes on. IRP researchers continue to run experiments, publish scientific papers, and train the next generation of scientists, including the many graduate students performing research in IRP labs through the Graduate Partnership Program. On February 17 and 18, more than 100 of these scientists-in-training presented their work virtually at the NIH’s 17th annual Graduate Student Research Symposium. Like last year’s entirely online Postbac Poster Day, the event overcame the constraints of COVID-19 precautions to showcase a broad range of research, including several studies focused on the novel coronavirus. Read on to learn about the intriguing experiments being done by a handful of NIH’s many talented graduate students.
COVID-19 is especially deadly for adults with Down syndrome. But many can t get a vaccine shot. Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY
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The elderly woman on the phone was heartbroken. Her brother, who had Down syndrome, had never lacked a family member at his side in his 60-plus years.
But then he became severely ill with COVID-19, and she d had to leave him at a local hospital, confused and alone. He died two weeks later.
Now she was calling the Down Syndrome Association of Minnesota to ask if she could help spare other families from the same fate by helping the agency in its efforts to lobby state health officials to prioritize COVID-19 vaccination for adults with Down syndrome.