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COLUMBUS, Ohio â A pathologist who discovered a new âU.K.-likeâ COVID-19 variant said the U.S. was âcaught under resourcedâ with minimal viral surveillance when Englandâs public health agency detected a worrisome mutation last month.
The âvast majorityâ of U.S. states were conducting no viral surveillance other than a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) program that evaluates a handful of samples per week from different public health labs, said Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center pathologist Dr. Daniel Jones.
U.S. officials, including the nationâs top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, are now acknowledging that inadequate sequencing left blind spots across the U.S. â a gap that labs are already making strides to patch.
Mark Harris
YOU WOULD never think that a 1988 American Heart Association (AHA) conference would set the stage for decades of debate around of all things sodium and race. But that’s where Clarence Grim, M.D., seeded a theory about Black health that has been difficult to uproot ever since.
Dr. Grim, then the director of the hypertension research center at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, hypothesized that high rates of hypertension among African Americans were due to the horrors of slavery, including the Middle Passage, the mass transport of slaves from West Africa to North America from roughly 1600 to 1800.
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When pharmacist Erin McCreary moved to Pennsylvania in 2018, she didn’t anticipate ever having to administer vaccines. She’d taken a vaccination certification course back in pharmacy school six years earlier, but it wasn’t part of her job description as an infectious diseases pharmacist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. That’s why she wasn’t concerned about the state pharmacy board rule that pharmacists had to file their certificate within two years of receiving it or they’d have to take the course again.
“Well, now, of course, COVID-19 happened,” McCreary told
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