As the coronavirus pandemic strained the support systems meant to assist residents in their time of need, Annapolis women decided to create their own. The result was My Sistah’s Keeper, an eight week program designed to give women the tools and skills to identify and reach their goals, be they financial, emotional or spiritual.
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Despite increased COVID-19 vaccinations and an overall decline in infections, San Bernardino County officials said a majority of new cases are being seen in younger people aged 18 to 49.
County data shows that confirmed cases in the age group total 161,680, or more than half of the 295,806 cases reported so far. The median age for coronavirus cases was 37 as of Thursday.
“A considerable number of these individuals, including many who are young and otherwise healthy, will suffer from the coronavirus, and some will require hospitalization,” said Interim Public Health Director Andrew Goldfrach in a statement. “Some will even die which is heartbreaking when one considers how easy it is to schedule a free vaccination appointment.”
A conversation with CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky
Walensky, a School of Medicine alum, discusses her time at Hopkins and shares her vision for caring for the nation beyond the COVID-19 pandemic By Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson / Published April 30, 2021
On December 7 of 2020, when President Biden s transition team announced that Rochelle P. Walensky was slated to become the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the medical and public health communities cheered the choice.
Image caption: Rochelle Walensky
Walensky has a reputation for sage and insightful research, and as the chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, she had been on the front lines of testing and treating deadly viruses for decades. Walensky received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1995, and for the next three years she trained at Johns Hopkins Hospital during a cri
Credit: Ishant Kumar / Getty Images As COVID crisis unfolds in India, Johns Hopkins rushes to help
The university is working urgently with partners on the ground to offer support and expertise to India, with efforts organized and led by the newly created Johns Hopkins India Institute By Dave Alexander / Published April 28, 2021
A massive, COVID-fueled humanitarian catastrophe is presently unfolding in India, with illness spreading at terrifying and deadly scale and speed. The nation s hospitals and health care system are swamped. Supplies of critical supplies oxygen, personal protective equipment, medications have been exhausted or are running dangerously low.
India has recorded seven consecutive days with more than 300,000 new COVID-19 infections, a figure that is larger than in any other country at any point in the pandemic and which, experts say, surely underestimates the true spread of illness. (Daily cases counts in the U.S. p