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As the semester draws closer to an end, students may find themselves looking over the COVID-19 vaccine options to help keep themselves safe, should they plan for any summer break travels. With how the coronavirus is continuing its spread in more infectious variants, it can be crucial to have this planned before the break starts, if students have not already done it. Starting May 1, Lubbock’s vaccine clinic at Lubbock Memorial Civic Center will no longer be available to the public. These will instead be replaced by pop-up clinics that will happen around town to better accommodate people w...

Following Pfizer’s announcement that a booster shot for the COVID-19 vaccine could be in the future, some may be wondering why it is needed. “There’s nothing definite yet about having a booster for the Pfizer or Moderna, but it’s likely that they’ll be some type of annual vaccination,” Said Dr. Steven Berk, an Infectious Disease physician and dean of the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. Some people have been vaccinated now for six months, what is unknown is whether the antibodies are still around, Berk said. There is not enough data yet to kn...

Rider University offers program for entrepreneurial vets and military Rider University offers program for entrepreneurial vets and military Entrepreneurial veterans and active-duty military are encouraged to apply to Rider University’s Veterans Entrepreneurship Training program. Returning for its eighth year, the free, seven-week program helps veterans and active-duty military develop a business concept or grow an existing business. Led by faculty in Rider’s Norm Brodsky College of Business, the program guides participants through a range of business development skills and concepts, incl...

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is being put on pause after several people developed blood clots due to the vaccine. Johnson & Johnson is the only vaccine that requires one shot to obtain the full effect of the vaccine.  Katherine Wells, director of Public Health for the City of Lubbock discussed what will happen at the vaccine clinics in Lubbock now that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been put on halt.  “We stopped offering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the vaccine clinic,” Wells said. “Anybody that had a scheduled appointment was offered a Moderna vaccine instead. I...

As the Lubbock Public Health Department continues to vaccinate citizens, the COVID-19 variants throughout the United States present a new threat. Lubbock experts discussed the variants and whether the vaccine protects against them. Dr. Ron Cook, Lubbock Public Health Authority, said the coronavirus is a RNA virus and is made up of spike proteins. The spikes are made up of three different moieties, three little puzzle pieces as Cook called them. Sometimes when the virus replicates one of the puzzle pieces changes its shape, this is called a mutation, Cook said. “It still fits together, bu...