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MAKING THEM DANCE: Republicans with high hopes that their party might be able to ride Donald Trump’s voter base to victory next year without all the chaos that accompanies the former president himself might be out of luck.
Former Vibe intern Vanessa Ochavillo now reports in California
By Vanessa Ochavillo
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Vanessa Ochavillo is a journalist whose work in recent years has appeared in numerous San Francisco Bay Area outlets. She joined Vibe in 2009, eventually assuming the roles of project editor, assistant editor and editor. She currently works as a staff writer at Half Moon Bay Review in California. Below is her first person account of her Vibe experience.
A desire to write seemed like a good enough reason to contact Vibe in 2008. The program was mid-cycle, meaning my chances were slim at snagging a spot on what was likely a full team of high school interns.
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In 1992, the Pacific Daily News launched Yo!, a youth internship program to train high school students as journalists. Almost three decades later, the program has trained hundreds of students and has been offered every year - with the exception of 2020, the cursed pandemic year.
But this year, Vibe is back and it s going to be an amazing year, starting with our monthlong training in July. In addition to sessions led by former Vibe advisor Therese Padua Howe and current PDN reporter Anne Wen, interns will get the opportunity to hear from Vibe alumnae currently working as journalists.
Here is what some of them had to say about the program:
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The chances that you will get a “breakthrough” infection with SARS-CoV-2 despite being vaccinated more than two weeks ago (with both doses in the case of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine) are “quite low, but not zero,” according to a 4/20/21 post at Dear Pandemic. The chances of this occurring are 0.0077%, the post states. Breakthrough infections are not surprising because some also occurred during large-scale human studies of the vaccines. A total of 95% fewer such infections occurred among study subjects who received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine than among subjects who didn’t, for instance. But, obviously, that means some infections (8 out of 18,198 people vaccinated versus 162 in the similarly sized group of people who were not vaccinated) did occur among those receiving the vaccine. “The number of breakthrough infections depends heavily on the level