Weekly Review: Communicating COVID-19 – January 19, 2021
This week, we explore how communication surrounding COVID-19 has affected specific minority populations in the United States. COVID-19 has disproportionately [...]
Weekly Review: COVID-19 Legal and Ethics Issues – January 19, 2021
Vaccine Allocation Equity The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation published a very simple but effective infographic to depict the difference between [...]
New Year – New Asthma Guidelines
In December 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced 19 recommendations in six key areas of asthma diagnosis, management [...]
January is Cervical Cancer Month
Cervical cancer is cancer of the cervix. It occurs mostly in women over 30 years old. The main cause of [...]
January is Glaucoma Awareness Month. Have you scheduled your eye exam?
There are currently 3 million people in the United States living with glaucoma. Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible [...]
COVID-19, Racial-Ethnic Populations, and the Vaccine
COVID-19 has proven to disproportionately affect racial and ethnic populations. Black and Hispanic individuals are about four times more likely [...]
Weekly Review: Communicating COVID-19 – January 11, 2021
Combatting COVID-19 Misinformation The majority of communication-related articles this week focus on the effects of COVID-19 misinformation and offer recommendations [...]
Weekly Review: What’s new in the COVID-19 clinical world? – January 11, 2021
Duration and determinants of SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses in individual healthcare workers In this article, authors present a six-month longitudinal study [...]
Weekly Review: COVID-19 Legal and Ethics Issues – January 11, 2021
MUST READ POLICY PIECES: This week, the New Yorker published "The Plague Year" by Lawrence Wright, a tour-de-force piece of [...]
Weekly Review: COVID-19 Data and Surveillance – January 11, 2021
Viral Load and COVID-19 Few studies have examined the association between upper respiratory tract (URT) viral load and symptomatic COVID-19 [...]