April 14, 2021
Born in Hutchinson, Kansas, Lou Jean Fleron was raised on the Great Plains by working-class parents; her mother was a schoolteacher, her father worked in the oilfields. She attributes her commitment to equality to her upbringing – a commitment she’s used for 44 years to make Western New York a better place for working people.
“I’m a Midwestern pragmatist,” says Fleron, who has led the ILR School’s programs in Buffalo, New York, since 1976. “I believe you have to listen to everybody, and you have to work with people where they are, and you have to try to understand diverse interests and come to a common good. That is something that I think ILR, as an institution, is uniquely positioned to do.”
Loss of Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine expected to have little immediate impact | The Daily Gazette
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ALBANY The Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines remain available in adequate supply in the Capital Region, public health officials said Tuesday.
So the federal government’s temporary pause on use of the third vaccine, made by Johnson & Johnson, should have limited short-term impact on the mass vaccination campaign that has reached as much as 46% of residents in some Capital Region counties.
More worrisome is the potential longer-term impact on public willingness to receive those vaccines, as a significant portion of the populace was reluctant to be vaccinated even before rare side effects of the J&J vaccine were reported.
The Johnson & Johnson Pause Slows College Vaccinations
Schools are looking for alternatives to the one-shot vaccine before the end of the semester.
April 14, 2021, 12:57 p.m. ET
Vaccinations interrupted
As summer break looms, colleges are racing to inoculate students before they leave campus. Many schools and states had banked on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine the only one-shot Covid-19 inoculation approved for use in the U.S. to achieve that goal.
But on Tuesday, all 50 states, as well as CVS and Walgreens, halted use of the vaccine after six women between 18 and 48 developed blood clots within about two weeks after their shots. One died, and another is in critical condition.
Associated Press NEW YORK New York state health officials will follow federal recommendations and pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker announced Tuesday. After federal health agencies recommended halting the Johnson & Johnson shots so officials can investigate reports of rare but potentially dangerous blood clots, Zucker said all appointments for Johnson & Johnson vaccines on Tuesday at state-run mass vaccination sites would be honored with the Pfizer vaccine. “I am in constant contact with the federal government, and we will update New Yorkers as more information becomes available,” Zucker said in a news release. The federal guidance came after six reports of the unusual clots, including a death, among the more than 6.8 million Americans given the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccination so far. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said there is no sign of a similar clot concern with the most widely used COVID-19 vaccine
Artificial Photosynthesis as a Renewable Energy Source
Dr. Raj Shah, Ms. Eliana Matsil, Ms. Gabrielle Massoud | Koehler Instrument Company
The urgency of realizing a clean substitute to our fossil fuel energy supply is increasing exponentially. The study of artificial photosynthesis as a renewable energy source has been carried out for decades. This approach uses biomimetic techniques to replicate the process of natural photosynthesis, which uses abundant resources of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and energy-rich carbohydrates. By replicating this operation, researchers are able to design systems which utilize these natural resources to convert solar energy into chemical energy and store it in the bonds of a fuel. Fuels that are able to be produced by artificial photosynthesis include hydrocarbons such as formic acid (HCOOH), methanol (CH3OH), carbon monoxide (CO), and methane (CH4), or pure hydrogen fuel. The chemical processes involved in artificial phot