email article We re going to be in a Pinkalicious phase for the next few months. Chris Martin, MD, MSc, of West Virginia University School of Public Health, quoting surprisingly apt advice from the popular children s book series and applying it to potentially choosing one s COVID vaccine. It is sloppy and lazy to lump cladribine and alemtuzumab together. Gavin Giovannoni, MBBCh, PhD, of Queen Mary University of London in England, discussing the issue of some multiple sclerosis drugs possibly attenuating antibody responses to COVID vaccination. I felt immense pain when he died because I knew how close I was [to suicide] when I was at his stage of education. Christopher Veal, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Vermont in Burlington, reflecting on the suicide of a fellow student and his own brush with suicidal ideation.
Needle Exchange
A bill was recently introduced in the West Virginia State Legislature that would outlaw some of the state s most effective needle exchange programs. SB 334 was introduced by Senators Eric Tarr and Amy Grady; both are Republicans for District 4, which includes Mason, Jackson, Roane and Putnam counties. SB 334 would create a stricter license application process for harm reduction programs.
Talking about HIV and other needle-borne illnesses can be scary maybe that’s why so many of us don’t talk about it. But what if the stigmas are causing these health crises to worsen?
HIV can spread throughout communities quickly, especially in places where there are high rates of people who use drugs. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that Charleston, West Virginia, has the nation’s most alarming outbreak of HIV. Public health officials have been warning for years that Appalachia is vulnerable to outbreaks of the disease.
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Now that Johnson & Johnson has joined Pfizer and Moderna in having a COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S., the question on many people s minds is: who gets which vaccine?
Much of the discussion has focused on the differing vaccine efficacy numbers for the three products: those given for the J&J vaccine are in the 70% range, versus more than 90% for Pfizer s and Moderna s.
But the Biden administration and independent public health specialists insist that those figures aren t strictly comparable and the public shouldn t pay much attention to them.
Johnson & Johnson s is not an inferior vaccine, and we should not talk about who shouldn t get it; we should talk about how we can immunize hard-to-get populations, said Sarah Long, MD, a pediatric diseases physician at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia and a member of the CDC s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), during an emergency meeting of the committee Monday.
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CHARLESTON – Maryclaire Akers has been appointed as a Kanawha Circuit Court judge, taking over the seat left by the death of Judge Charles King.
Akers, who has practiced law for 21 years, currently is a Senior Assistant Prosecutor with the Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney’s office. She also has served as that office’s chief of staff. In addition, she was a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, general counsel for the state Ethics Commission and an assistant state Attorney General.
She will serve the rest of King’s term, which expires in 2022. Senior Status Judge Dan O’Hanlon has been filling in for King.