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Scenes from Beneath The Surface: A Film About Living with MS Last December, it dawned on Marylou Kandur that it had been over nine months since the members of her Parkinson s disease support group had seen each other s faces. While many other groups had pivoted online after COVID hit back in March, her Rhinebeck Parkinson s Support Group most of them senior citizens lacking in digital fluency lagged behind. Let me see if I can get these people together, thought Kandur, a retired entrepreneur in Red Hook who has had a manageable form of Parkinson s for 22 years. But what will I say to them?
Online Communities Matter. Especially for the Chronically Ill | Opinion Nitika Chopra
, founder, Chronicon On 3/1/21 at 7:30 AM EST
Millions of Americans feel like they re hiding in plain sight. They don t have to.
Growing up, I didn t understand the full meaning of the adage, Don t judge a book by its cover until I was diagnosed at 10-years-old with psoriasis, an autoimmune disease.
To most people, I looked like a vibrant kid with a big smile and a bright personality. But within a year, 98 percent of my body was covered with six scaly patches that itched like chicken pox and would leave me constantly bleeding or flaking.
We can learn about the spread of diseases through populations by studying naturally occurring instances of herd immunity. Avian cholera in the Canadian Arctic provides a useful case study.
March 01, 2021
× Researchers at Binghamton University suggest three ways that can ensure effective and fair distribution of Covid-19 vaccines.
One of the authors, Professor Nicole Hossoun said in a statement: “Although many people in rich countries will receive a vaccine for Covid-19 this year, many people in poor countries will likely have to wait years to get one.”
Hossoun added: “Ethical vaccine allocation requires closing this gap and ensuring that everyone can access a vaccine as soon as possible. We should increase vaccine manufacturing, distribution, and uptake. Rich countries should not get to prioritise their populations first.”
According to the researchers, all the methods, so far, fall short in ensuring equal allocation of coronavirus vaccines. Hence, they suggested some methods that can improve vaccine distribution. These include: