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Analysis of 130 COVID studies prompts push to reopen schools KFSN Debates have raged throughout the pandemic about if and how students should return to campuses. Now a new national report shows the findings of more than 130 studies on the safe reopening of schools. Several Valley school districts have brought back groups of students for on-campus learning. The author of a national study says CDC mitigation strategies have helped reduce the COVID risk for students and staff. "There is power in wearing masks and physically distancing students and increasing hygiene regiments and improving vent...

Green Cards for Undocumented “essential workers” on Biden’s Agenda Photo Credit: Public Domain Anthony Advincula Ethnic Media Services NEW YORK—On a recent Monday, Maribel Lapuz got up at 4:30 a.m. The 46-year-old immigrant from the Philippines braved the sub-zero weather and took the train from Jersey City, NJ to a nursing home in Brooklyn, NY, where she has worked six days a week as a caregiver since last February. A thousand miles away, Mario Ramirez drove from one house to another starting at 5:00 a.m. doing construction and plumbing work in Marietta, Georgia. Ramirez, a 52-yea...

Dec 29, 2020 7:15 PM EDT Addressing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on education will be among some of the most urgent issues facing President-elect Joe Biden when he takes office. Biden’s long list of stated education priorities include undoing the Trump administration’s cutbacks on regulations meant to protect vulnerable students from discrimination, exploitation or civil rights violations. But some of these goals could take a back seat as Biden’s administration prepares to oversee an unprecedented public health crisis that has gone on for nearl...

"One of the things that was unfortunate about the Trump administration's approach to the pandemic, was that they chose not to participate in the COVAX facility," said Ramirez, a former HHS pandemic and emerging threats coordinator in the Office of Global Affairs. "The COVAX facility was a way for emerging countries to jointly invest in vaccines and have access to all of these resources." According to a report from NBC News, while vaccines are currently rolling out in rich countries, such as the United States and Great Britain, poorer countries around the globe could potentially have to wait f...

Emergency physician: Covid vaccine will ‘feel just like any other vaccination’ Duration: 03:05 Emergency physician and managing director of Opportunity Labs Dr. Mario Ramirez talks with Katy Tur about what recipients of the Covid-19 vaccine can expect. Ramirez reminds viewers that Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines do not include any live virus and that side effects may include localized soreness, muscle aches, and fatigue.