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DURHAM, N.C. Mortality rates among young adults are rising in the U.S. due in part to deaths of despair preventable deaths from suicide, drug overdoses and alcohol-related liver disease. An intensive childhood intervention program called Fast Track could help reduce these deaths by reducing risky behaviors in adolescence and young adulthood, finds new research from Duke University and the Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. To reduce deaths of despair, we must prevent the hopelessness and destructive behaviors that often lead to these deaths, says study co-author Kenneth A. Dodge, the William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke s Sanford School of Public Policy. Dodge is a member of the Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group that created the Fast Track program.
A health care worker prepares COVID-19 vaccine doses at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Dec. 16 in Portland, Ore. Hospitals across the U.S. began getting their first doses of Pfizer s vaccine this week.
The fight against COVID-19 entered a new phase this week, as American health care workers started getting inoculated the first in what will be a massive effort.
Atlanticscience writer Ed Yong says the coming months will usher in the most complicated vaccination program the U.S. has ever attempted. It s going to be a slow process, and there are a lot of possible roadblocks in the way in terms of producing the vaccine, distributing it, allocating it, Yong says. Don t think of the vaccine as a light switch that the minute it starts going into people s arms, normalcy resumes. . It s going to take a while for things to get under control.
This is FRESH AIR. I m Terry Gross.
It s astonishing that scientists were able to develop vaccines for a virus that wasn t even identified a year ago. This week, American health care workers started getting the first COVID vaccine to be approved in the U.S. Also this week, the FDA approved a new rapid test that you can take at home and get results in about 20 minutes.
My guest, Ed Yong, has a new article in The Atlantic about the science that led to developing COVID vaccines in record time, the flawed science that helped lead to misguided policies and the lessons that can be applied to future pandemics. He s been covering this pandemic since it began, writing about nearly every aspect, including how the virus is spread, what the government got wrong, the long-haulers who have symptoms lasting for months and the mental health of the doctors and nurses caring for patients. Yong is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers science. His new article is titled How Science Beat th
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A health care worker prepares COVID-19 vaccine doses at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Wednesday in Portland, Ore. Hospitals across the U.S. began getting their first doses of Pfizer s vaccine this week. Nathan Howard/Getty Images
The fight against COVID-19 entered a new phase this week as American health care workers started getting vaccinated the first in what will be a massive effort. Science writer Ed Yong of
The Atlantic says the coming months will usher in the most complicated immunization program the U.S. has ever attempted.
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A new paper released by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health reports a strong association between a high number of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and contact with the U.S. justice system. Analyzing data from eleven studies, the researchers found that results were consistent across multiple types of justice system contact and across diverse geographic regions of the country. The findings are published in
Pediatrics. We found consistent evidence that higher ACE scores are associated with greater risks of juvenile justice system contact in the United States, said Gloria Graf, a doctoral student in epidemiology at Columbia Mailman School, and first author.