SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) Part of Building a Better Bay Area means focusing on education. This school year has been interesting, to say the least, with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Distance learning has been especially difficult for some young learners. So as we hit winter break, we wondered how progress has been this year, compared to previous school years, particularly for kids learning to read.
ABC7 News Anchor Ama Daetz checked in with Susan Lavelle, with Union School District in the South Bay, to find out if kids are keeping up or falling behind.
Lavelle says it s a bit of both.
It s the dream on the horizon, a world without masks, where you glide through the airport or sit down to dinner wherever you want. The question now is, will you need a so-called vaccine passport to get there? We can offer voice as part of that process, but it also includes knowledge bots, AI, chatbots, virtual agents. It s full integration of all the technologies that we have available today, Bates said.
At the same time, health providers, government agencies and others involved in immunization will want to gather data to keep track of the vaccines administered, patient reactions, antibody results and other pertinent information. That s where San Francisco 1health can help, It has created a platform to manage a mountain of data that will be useful for the short and long term.
It s the dream on the horizon, a world without masks, where you glide through the airport or sit down to dinner wherever you want. The question now is, will you need a so-called vaccine passport to get there?
Most of Headlands trial sites are in the South, and that s important to researchers to have access to patients who come from diverse backgrounds.
COVID-19 has disproportionately infected and claimed the lives of members of ethnic and racial minority groups. We had sites in Texas and Louisiana. We had 90 percent Latinx population across one of the trials in Moderna and in excess of 40 percent African American at our Atlanta site, and that s really important for the trials that we get that diversity enrollment, said Blumling.
Unlike the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, Johnson and Johnson s version has been touted to only require a single-dose, although a study involving a two-dose regimen is also being conducted.
Interim data should be available by the end of January. The company plans to submit an emergency use authorization request to the FDA in February, according to Johnson & Johnson s statement.
The ENSEMBLE trial was paused in October for a week, when a trial participant fell ill.
Since the coronavirus started spreading across the globe in late 2019, scientists have been looking for a vaccine. Now that vaccines are proven, it will ultimately be up to each state to determine who will get the vaccine, and when? Yo habia ido al hospital y le decia no te me acerques porque eso duele mucho. Esto te va a tumbar, te va a matar no te acerques ma acerques vete a tu cuarto. Y mi mama se puso a llorar y me decia no me quieres y yo le decia no es que no te quiera ma, porque te quiero no te me acerques por favor, said Macias. ( I used to tell my mom, please don t come close to me. My mom would cry and tell me you don t love me and I would explain to her Mom because I love you, please go to your room. )