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Public Health Education Key for Growing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

A growing online movement has some medical professionals concerned the nation won’t achieve a herd immunity once a COVID-19 vaccine is developed, underscoring a need for better public health education and provider communication. Although support for vaccinations is generally high — a Gallup survey recently reported that 84 percent of adults agree it’s important children get vaccinated […]

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Noozhawk News Hosting Free Webinars on Mental Health, Education During COVID-19 Pandemic

Noozhawk News is hosting two free webinars next week focused on how the community is dealing with mental wellness and education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first session, at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 27, is entitled “Mental Wellness During the COVID-19 Crisis. Read More

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Some Colleges Are Already Planning for the Next Wave of COVID-19

Even as many colleges are struggling to figure out what the beginning of the new academic year will look like, a few have made public schedules for the next semester that already account for another wave of COVID-19 infections in the fall, which epidemiologists have said is more or less inevitable. The colleges that have […]

Home But Not Safe, Some LGBTQ Young People Face Rejection From Families in Lockdown

Staying home and sheltering in place can be stressful for everyone. But for some college students who identify as LGBTQ, returning to family environments can be very difficult and even psychologically damaging, psychologists say. “A lot of young people when they make it to college are able, for the first time, really, to live their […]

What Dr. Fauci Says About Students Returning to Campuses in the Fall

The prospect of a COVID-19 vaccine by colleges’ fall reopening time is “a bridge too far,’ said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s preeminent infectious diseases expert, at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, reported The Boston Globe. At the hearing, Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander asked Dr. Fauci, a key member of the president’s coronavirus task force, to look three […]

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Harvard Med School: Remote Instruction Only for Fall 2020’s Entering Classes

Harvard Medical School has decided that there will be remote instruction only for the entering classes in fall 2020 and for the school-directed external education programs that would have been held on campus. In a statement Wednesday, the school said it hopes to be able to hold in-person research and clinical training for returning medical and […]

Experts Provide Mental Health Tips Amid Pandemic-Related Stressors

Over the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted the lives of people around the world. In the United States, the death rate has reached an upwards of 90,000 and the unemployment rate increased to 14.7% in April, according to Statista. With social distancing policies and stay-at-home orders in place throughout the country, schools […]

How the Big Ten Is Making Mental Health a Growing Priority

Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren speaks of mental fitness with the intent and enthusiasm of a motivational speaker. The message is powerful — the message inherent in his decision to deliver it even more so. The first major public initiative of Warren’s tenure as only the sixth Big Ten Conference commissioner is directed toward neither […]

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Colleges Push Viral Testing, Other Ideas for Reopening in Fall. But Some Worry About Deepening the Health Crisis.

One afternoon this week, Celeste Torres, a sociology student at the University of California at San Diego, stopped by a self-serve testing station to perform a five-minute ritual that could hold the key to reopening college campuses nationwide amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Torres, who’s 27 and identifies with gender-neutral pronouns, used a cellphone to scan a […]

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Faculty Open Up About Mental Health Under the COVID-19 Pandemic

Michelle O’Malley and Matthew Helgeson, chemical engineering faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, are still adjusting to life under the coronavirus pandemic. For the married professors, this means running their respective research groups from home while also taking care of their almost-3-year-old son. Elliott, like most preschoolers, needs constant attention. Except during nap time. […]

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Trans Postdoc Claims Psychiatrists Were Biased Against Him

“It was one of the first graduations Ron Daniels was at. I got to shake his hand. Underneath the cap and gown, I was wearing a dress. At another graduation, I was wearing a shirt and tie. It felt full circle. At Hopkins, I had gotten a bachelor’s degree and a PhD — and a […]

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UC San Diego to Start Mass Testing of Staff and Students for COVID-19

The University of California San Diego will next week begin mass testing of students, faculty and staff for COVID-19 under a ‘Return to Learn’ program the institution hopes to extend to the fall if it reopens as planned, it said in a statement. CBS 8 called the program the first such plan on campus in […]

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