In a concrete hangar in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico,
Katrina Mayes is working with precision and purpose. Wisps of smoke surround her, wafting off the dry ice she is using to jerry-rig a cardboard vaccine carrier. Her task: to create a vapor phase vent to moderate the temperature of the cooling container from around minus 80 degrees Celsius (for storing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vials) to minus 15 degrees Celsius (to accommodate supplies of the Moderna vaccine).
At 29, the biochemist and virologist has spent much of her professional life indoors, where the U.S. government has entrusted her to handle some of the world’s most lethal pathogens including Ebola, Lassa fever, and Nipah viruses at top-secret Biosafety Level Four facilities. “I shower six times a day,” she tells me. “I’m the cleanest person you’ll ever meet.” Her winning smile and gallows humor mask the gravity of her work, which has involved diffusing poison-laced letters that have been mailed to federal buildings.
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Furst Group Recruits Chief Nursing Officer for Children’s Minnesota
May 7, 2021 – As the healthcare sector continues to expand and reshape itself, vanguard organizations in the field are looking to bolster their leadership ranks. In demand: multi-skilled executives, physician leaders and nurses who can effect change on many levels. Of the four major C-suite roles in the typical hospital, the top nursing executive has traditionally been the most difficult to secure, according to recruiters. To that end, executive recruitment firm Furst Group, which serves the healthcare and insurance industries, has placed Caroline Njau as senior vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer of Children’s Minnesota.
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Young Black women show a high prevalence of obesity, elevated blood pressure and other lifestyle-related factors that may put them on a trajectory to develop heart disease at a young age, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology s 70th Annual Scientific Session.
While previous research has drawn attention to the burden of heart disease among Black women, the new study is unique in its focus on examining the age at which heart disease risk factors emerge in this population in a community setting. The researchers found high rates of lifestyle-linked risk factors among Black women as early as their 20s and 30s.
Bidens, Carters pose for a photo during visit to Plains
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President Biden delivers remarks in Gwinnett County
The president along with the first lady participated in a drive-in rally in Georgia on Thursday to mark President Biden s 100th day in office.
PLAINS, Ga. - The oldest sitting president and the longest-living president appeared in the same, historic photo.
During their visit to Georgia last week, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden stopped in Plains, Georgia, home of former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
Joe Biden was a Delaware senator and Jimmy Carter ally during the Georgian’s term in the White House from 1977 to 1981.