The CDC issued guidelines this week recommending wearing a surgical mask underneath a cloth mask or knotting the surgical masks to prevent air seeping through the sides. Even when a person is vaccinated, it takes up to two weeks to reach maximum immunity and no shot offers total protection.
The Buffalo Bills may not have won the Super Bowl, but the success of their playoff games from a health perspective will be a precursor to reopening other
Monique Baumont, MPH is a Research & Policy Analyst at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where she synthesizes and analyzes the most current evidence in the areas of maternal and reproductive health to support legal advocacy initiatives. Prior to this role, Monique conducted research regarding adverse childhood experiences in Indonesia and supported Columbia University s Mailman School of Public Health with analyzing and presenting data on issues ranging from forced migration to environmental justice for diverse audiences. In addition to her research experience, Monique previously worked as a Language Access Program Director at the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, working to expand access to services for Asian immigrant and refugee communities in Massachusetts.
When the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in the United States last year, public health officials and community experts warned that Black and other people of colour would be disproportionately hard hit.
Their warning was quickly proven true, with Black, Hispanic and other racialised communities bearing the brunt of infections, deaths and hospitalisations linked to the coronavirus in the year since it began spreading across the country.
Now, many of those experts say a dearth of data on race related to the administration of COVID-19 vaccines risks leaving those same communities behind – or worse, furthering the damage the virus continues to wreak.