Over 500 people attended the free Covid-19 Vaccine for Communities of Color webinar, hosted by The Essex Country (NJ) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated (ECCL) on Sunday evening, January 24, 2021..
Over 500 people attended the free Covid-19 Vaccine for Communities of Color webinar, hosted by The Essex Country (NJ) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated (ECCL) on Sunday evening, January 24, 2021..
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A question-and-answer piece with Dr. Leana Wen of the George Washington University School of Public Health explains why COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S. is going so slowly and “the need to balance speed with fairness (1/26/21), as freelance science writer Marla Broadfoot writes for Scientific American. The priority tiers developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control look good on paper but are rigid, Wen states in the piece. “At this point, the necessary step is to relax the measures and open vaccination up to broader categories of eligibility because there has been a lack of infrastructure to implement this the right way,” she states. A first-come, first-served policy will reach more people and avoid wasted doses, but disadvantage people with limited cell phone minutes, or weak or absent Internet service, as well as people who are less tech savvy. But this is a “race against time,” Wen says, and delaying progress toward herd immunity gives the virus more time to mut
St. Bonaventure University Jan 27, 2021 |
O’Connor was the physician to the vice president from 2009 to 2017 and White House physician from 2006-2009 during the Bush administration. He was inducted into SBU’s Seneca Battalion ROTC Hall of Fame in 2019.
O’Connor has been an associate professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences since 2017, and taught previously at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
O’Connor attended St. Bonaventure on an Army ROTC scholarship, completing a major in biology and minor in theology. He served as class president and founder/director of the campus Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) and received a military commission as a Distinguished Military Graduate.