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As UK Reports Hundreds of COVID-19 Cases, Officials Await More Data Before Making Major Decisions
The University of Kentucky (UK) has reported hundreds of positive coronavirus cases three weeks into in-person fall classes, but school officials say they are waiting on “further data” before deciding whether to transition to online learning, reports the Courier Journal. According to the Courier Journal, UK’s COVID-19 reporting dashboard reported 254 positive test results as of Aug. 22, but that number […]
September 4, 2020
Other News
Northwestern Abruptly Changes Re-Opening Plans, Prompting Apology From President
As Northwestern University’s president Morton Schapiro watched COVID-19 cases rising in Chicago’s Cook County, he made the last-minute decision on Friday to allow only third- and fourth-year students back on campus for in-person classes and residence living. That way, the school “could increase its capacity to quarantine students based on estimates from the state,” reports The […]
September 4, 2020
Other News
ACHA Issues New Guidance on Protecting Vulnerable Populations Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Along with careful and ambitious plans to reopen for the fall semester amid a pandemic have come pledges from campus leaders to keep all of their students safe. But new guidance from the American College Health Association (ACHA) urges college officials to also protect, support and engage those who are most vulnerable in the campus […]
September 4, 2020
Other News
Navigating the COVID-19 Landscape: Strategies for Mature Citizens
Like many mature and retired citizens, a year ago I was making plans for using some of the funds I had squirreled away for visiting places on my bucket list, and for escaping the predictably cold winters in the Midwest where I live. Little did I know that my plans would not only be put […]
September 4, 2020
Other News
More Than 550 Positive Coronavirus Cases Have Been Reported at Colleges Across Virginia
More than 550 positive cases of the coronavirus have been reported among students, faculty and staff at Virginia colleges and universities as they’ve reopened their campuses for the fall semester. At Virginia Commonwealth University, 44 positive cases within the athletics department forced the university to create 110 beds’ worth of space in the Honors College […]
August 31, 2020
Other News
‘Shame and Blame’: Are College COVID-19 Cases the Fault of Campuses Full of Reckless Partiers? Experts, Students Say No.
Sweaty, drunken revelers spilled into the street below Addy Miller’s campus-adjacent apartment on the Saturday after North Carolina State University’s first week of classes. Miller, 20, viewed the late-night ruckus from her balcony, and others like it via news articles and viral videos. The locations vary, but the images are the same: throngs of college […]
August 31, 2020
Other News
Some Central Ohio Colleges Won’t Publicly Report COVID Cases
Several central Ohio colleges and universities are working to share on-campus COVID-19 statistics to keep students, employees and the larger community informed on the number of positive cases they have. But not all of them are publicly reporting those statistics. The Dispatch reached out to Capital University, the Columbus College of Art & Design, Denison […]
August 31, 2020
Other News
On Who Matters – and Who Doesn’t – in Higher Education
As COVID-19 continues to devastate communities across the U.S., colleges and universities must brace for what is sure to be a hectic Autumn semester, including making difficult decisions that may put many lives on the line. In some instances, institutions are committing to online-only classes in order to not risk the spread of the disease. […]
August 31, 2020
Other News
Is it Safe to Go to College? Health Experts Weigh In
For many students, college is a time of firsts. And now colleges and universities are having their own firsts, trying to grapple with reopening and educating while battling Covid-19. School is only just beginning and there are thousands of coronavirus cases linked to colleges in dozens of states. Classes, labs, dorms, parties, sports, arts. New […]
August 31, 2020
Mental Health
California Colleges Increase Online Mental Health Services to Serve Expected Student Need
With surveys showing that the pandemic is worsening anxiety and depression among college students, campus counseling centers across California are bracing for an expected sharp rise in the numbers of students seeking mental health services. Like most college and university classes, psychological therapy sessions switched to online — or on telephone — in March. The […]
August 31, 2020
Disparities
ACHA Issues New Guidance on Protecting Vulnerable Populations Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Along with careful and ambitious plans to reopen for the fall semester amid a pandemic have come pledges from campus leaders to keep all of their students safe. But new guidance from the American College Health Association (ACHA) urges college officials to also protect, support and engage those who are most vulnerable in the campus […]
August 31, 2020
Other News
OneLegacy Continues Its Commitment to Serve Diverse Donation and Transplantation Communities During National Minority Donor Awareness Month
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– As part of its commitment to serve the many diverse communities of Southern California, OneLegacy continues its outreach initiatives during August’s National Minority Donor Awareness Month. People of color make up more than 70% of transplant recipients in the region; but the need for organ donation and transplantation is greater in minority […]
August 24, 2020
Other News
Envision Healthcare Enhances Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Plan
NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Envision Healthcare today releases an enhanced strategy to build and advance a more diverse, equitable and inclusive environment within the national medical group. After a period of reflection following the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, among others, Envision has put forward a course of action to help the medical group […]
August 24, 2020
Disparities
Striking Delays in Autism Dx Among African-American Kids
African-American families with concerns about their children’s development have to surmount many obstacles before reaching an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis with providers, a study indicated. Among 584 Black children with ASD, the mean age of diagnosis was 5.4 years, more than 3 years after parents first reported concerns about children’s development, reported John Constantino, […]
August 24, 2020
Disparities
Philly Should Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis — And Then Do Something About it
Crisis is a term we often hear in conversations about things we perceive to be of grave danger to our lives or livelihood. When applied to public health, experts have loosely defined a crisis as an issue that affects large numbers of people, threatens those individuals’ health over the long-term, and requires large-scale solutions to […]
August 24, 2020
Disparities
‘Abysmal, but Fixable:’ Inside Biopharma’s Renewed Push to Up Racial and Gender Representation
The biggest “a-ha!” moment during a recently held roundtable on advancing equality in biopharma may have come by way of the live polling. Only 20% of the 10 or so drugmakers and CROs attending the roundtable said their corporate plans around diversity and inclusion were specific and intentional. Another 44% said they didn’t know if […]
August 24, 2020
Disparities
The Lack of Black Doctors is Killing Black Babies, New Study Finds
The case for greater diversity in medicine can’t get much more stark than this. Black newborns are three times more likely than white newborns to die when cared for by white physicians, according to a new study tracking 1.8 million hospital childbirths over more than two decades. But when they are cared for by Black doctors, Black […]
August 24, 2020
Disparities
Healthcare Providers Push to Fix Racism in the Medical Industry as COVID-19 Devastates Communities of Color
Two pediatricians, two allergists, one dermatologist and three hospitals. Anna Akins, 32, sat in waiting rooms in Louisiana for over nine months trying to get her newborn son’s condition diagnosed while he spent his days coughing and wheezing with undiagnosed allergies and no answers. For Akins, it took hours of exhausting conversations with doctors. She said she was not taken […]
August 24, 2020
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