Florida Faculty and Staff Protest Exclusion From Vaccines March 9, 6:18 a.m. Faculty and staff members in Florida are protesting a policy of Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, to offer vaccines to all employees at K-12 schools, but not to higher education employees, The Miami Herald reported. “This is not acceptable,” said a statement from Karen Morian, the president of the
New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that people who have had COVID-19 may need only one shot of vaccine.
The study led by the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health showed one dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine known as mRNA vaccines boosted antibodies among those who previously had COVID-19.
“These results support a new and growing body of research suggesting that prior coronavirus infection may act as a primer for the immune response to the first dose of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine,” said first study author Emily Ciccone, a clinical instructor and fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the School of Medicine.
The pandemic played into already rising death rates from obesity, drugs, alcohol and suicide.
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Premature deaths in the United States from drugs, alcohol and obesity-related causes became a public health crisis that set the stage for COVID-19 challenges, a new report finds. Unsplash
There is no good time for a pandemic, but COVID-19 hit the United States as a public health crisis was well under way.
The novel coronavirus has exacerbated already rising death rates among Americans in the prime of their lives, a new report concludes. Especially hard-hit are racial minorities and people of all races with low incomes and a high school education or less.
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