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The Wanderer Rochester Election Review May 23, 2021 Editor’s note: The Wanderer invited candidates in contested races (more candidates than open seats) to write up to 350 words explaining their candidacy. Questions submitted by the League of Women Voters South Coast helped provide talking points for the candidates. Three candidates are running for two open seats on the Rochester Planning Board. The only entry submitted is below: Dennis McCarthy – Rochester Planning Board             My name is Dennis McCarthy and I am running for Rochester Planning Board. I decided to run for s...

Hotspots as reported by Vancouver Coastal Health on May 6. Frontliner percentages based off census data on health, trades, services, manufacturing and resource workers. Visualization by Christopher Cheung. Data from 2016 Canadian census. None of this data surprises advocates, who have called for the collection of race-based COVID-19 data since the early months of the pandemic. “Race and class, particularly at their intersection, have been documented to be a key factor in shaping differentiated rates of infection and also risk for COVID-19,” says John Paul Catungal, an assistant professor...

The Translator Kids If family members don’t know English, how do you keep them safe and informed in a pandemic? Christopher Cheung reports on urban issues for The Tyee. Follow him on Twitter at @bychrischeung. SHARES Mimi Nguyen grew up translating for her parents, who came to Vancouver as refugees. With the help of her sister and a dictionary, she took on the responsibility in her preteens. Photo by Christopher Cheung. It was Mimi Nguyen’s older sister Kim who first modelled the expectation that the children of newcomers should step in as the family’s trans...

UT Health San Antonio, University Health recruit in San Antonio for Novavax COVID-19 vaccine trial 500 volunteers will part of the two-year study Published:  Tags:  In this photo released by Nucleus Network/ABC, clinical trial participants are given a coronavirus vaccine in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, May 26, 2020, with hopes of releasing a proven vaccine this year. Novavax injected 131 volunteers in the first phase of the trial testing the safety of the vaccine and looking for signs of its effectiveness. (Patrick Rocca/Nucleus Network/ABC via AP) (Nucleus Network/ABC) SAN ANTONIO – UT...

Foss: Emergency coalition ramps up relief effort | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 Last March a coalition of local non-profits came together with the goal of bringing food and other essentials to Schenectady County residents in need. The effort was a response to COVID-19 and the unprecedented stay-at-home orders, business shutdowns and quarantine and isolation requirements that came with it. Over a 14-week period, the coalition made 16,500 deliveries and distributed over 800,000 pounds of food. It was a massive, all-consuming undertaking, and when the pandemic subsided, the coalition disba...