Undergraduate students will serve as patient care technicians, and graduate students and faculty will be part of patient care teams.
Editor s Note: The information published in this story is accurate at the time of publication. Always refer to uab.edu/uabunited for UAB s current guidelines and recommendations relating to COVID-19.
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More than 120 undergraduate, graduate and faculty members of the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham will soon begin working in UAB Hospital to support the fight against COVID-19. The faculty and students are joining the frontline health care workers who have been caring for COVID-19 patients since the start of the pandemic.
By The Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Health care workers and a few others began receiving the first vaccinations against the new coronavirus in Alabama on Tuesday as cases of the illness caused by the virus continued to increase.
Two physicians at Southeast Health in Dothan were the first in the state to receive the vaccine, the Alabama Department of Public Health said. Cullman Regional Medical Center said a longtime nurse, Donna Snow, had received an initial dose of the two-step vaccine a day after the hospital, located north of Birmingham, received its first shipment.
“I’m hopeful that more people are able to take the vaccine so we can begin to see a decline in the number of critically ill patients and families impacted by this disease,” Snow, who works in critical care, said in a statement released by the hospital.
Photo: Nikolas Kokovlis/Zuma Press Dec. 15, 2020 6:17 pm ET
A Dec. 13 Twitter thread by Sarah Parcak, a professor of archaeology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a fellow at the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation:
I know everyone is angry about what Joseph epstein wrote about Dr Biden yesterday in the @WSJ However the real aim for our ire should be @jamestaranto the editor of their op-ed page. He has, so far, completely escaped accountability. That ends now.
James, explain yourself. When 3k+ Americans die daily from covid, millions suffer w food insecurity +eviction, major sedition happening, racism, climate change.you give space to an angry old white misogynist to yell at our future 1st lady re her Ed.D?
UAB is one of two universities awarded grants by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and Coalition of Urban Serving Universities.
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and Coalition of Urban Serving Universities has awarded a grant to the University of Alabama at Birmingham to prepare low-income students for careers in data-related industries.
UAB and Virginia Commonwealth University are the first cohort of APLU’s Seeding Innovation to Deliver 21st Century Skills project. The $50,000 awards, known as Collaborative Opportunity Grants, support innovative approaches that link preparation for the workforce to an institution’s community engagement.
The grants support university partnerships with community stakeholders aimed at removing institutional barriers that prevent success for low-income students and preparing them for the 21st century workforce. The one-year project is funded through a grant from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundati
On December 15, UAB received 10,725 COVID-19 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Editor s Note: The information published in this story is accurate at the time of publication. Always refer to uab.edu/uabunitedfor UAB s current guidelines and recommendations relating to COVID-19.
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On December 15, University of Alabama at Birmingham received 10,725 COVID-19 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. With this shipment, UAB will vaccinate 7,507 hospital personnel (both UAB and other Jefferson County hospital personnel), 1,609 clinical personnel, as well as 1,609 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel from the seven-county region in a 40-mile radius.
Vaccinations are by appointment only and will be scheduled starting today. Recipients will be scheduled to receive the initial dose and the follow-up dose.