Every year, the Office of the Provost recognizes faculty members who go above and beyond in serving Northwestern and its individual units, along with practicing good academic citizenship. This February, the Office awarded the Provost Awards for Exemplary Faculty Service to Mathematics Prof. Bryna Kra, Feinberg Prof. Kenzie Cameron, Feinberg Prof. Michael Ison and Feinberg.
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Facebook’s efforts to police online ads for vaccine misinformation are unintentionally blocking messages from cities, health care providers and community and faith-based groups promoting Covid shots.
Paid-for messages from at least 110 groups aimed at raising awareness of how the vaccines work or where to get inoculated were flagged and sent to Facebook’s register of political messages, a POLITICO review of barred ads dating from last September shows.
Sponsors of the ads have the option of appealing but say the process may prove too burdensome while they deal with the halting distribution of vaccines and respond to new more contagious strains of the virus. That’s led some public health experts to question if Facebook can be a viable forum for information on the pandemic as it faces pressure to combat anti-vaccination forces that have been prevalent on its platform.
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When healthcare workers from NorthShore University HealthSystem received the COVID-19 vaccine in mid-December, uptake rates hovered just above 50 percent.
Lakshmi Halasyamani, chief medical officer at NorthShore, said the health system sent out over 11,000 vaccination tickets to get approximately 6,000 workers inoculated.
Participation rates have since risen. But Halasyamani said her team anticipated the initial low turnout, given NorthShoreâs diversity in race, ethnicity and political views.
âOur vaccination efforts within healthcare ecosystems are kind of a microcosm of our communities,â she said. âWeâre seeing those same concerns in our populations.â
Scholars say decades of institutional racism have laid a foundation for legitimate distrust in medicine. As NorthShore and AMITA Health work with the Evanston government to distribute the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, local experts emphasize the need for messaging tailored to resident