Building trust in safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines
Convincing millions to get vaccinated will take more than data, facts and figures January 21, 2021 • By Sabin Russell / Fred Hutch News Service Anthony Jackson, security coordinator for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, receives a dose of the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 19, 2021, at a new vaccine clinic set up on the Fred Hutch campus. Photo by Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service
On the morning of Dec. 29, as a historic and harrowing year was drawing to a close, Dr. Steven Pergam bared his left shoulder to receive his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
We DO NOT have extra vaccine doses and will not be able to accommodate walk-ins.
But that message wasn t always there.
When Jenna Anderson-O Neil saw on Facebook that her cousin had been vaccinated against Covid-19 on January 14, she was perplexed.
Anderson-O Neil s cousin is in her mid-twenties, has no underlying health conditions, and doesn t work in a health care setting. She wondered how her cousin could have gotten vaccinated before her 65-year-old mother who has underlying health conditions and, was at that time ineligible.
But still, her cousin had managed to book an evening time appointment online to get the shot at Swedish s Seattle University clinic.
Spotlight on Scott Furlan
Scott Furlan, pediatric oncologist
Dr. Scott Furlan, a pediatric oncologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, believes he was drawn to bone marrow transplantation because of the sheer complexity of the challenge.
“In pediatric transplant, each patient has a dizzying array of complex problems, each of which often has multiple solutions” Furlan said.
To treat his young cancer patients, he has to sort through raft of possibilities and options, while helping parents navigate the frightful choices that lie ahead of them.
“In pediatrics, we have the opportunity to develop long-lasting relationships and extraordinary connections with patients and families. I still talk with many patients and their parents a decade later,” Furlan said.
Working from home and showing the Heart of the Hutch
A majority of Fred Hutch s workforce is carrying on the mission while working from home January 14, 2021 • By Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service Fred Hutch’s Courtney Smith, working at home, started at Fred Hutch just 10 months ago. She has never been to the Fred Hutch campus or met any of her coworkers in person. Photo courtesy of Courtney Smith
Heart of the Hutch: Working From Home edition
We have been profiling people who illustrate the culture and spirit of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with the Heart of the Hutch series. This edition focuses on the many people who have been working from home due to the pandemic. Check out our Essential Worker edition.
Sunday, 27 December 2020, 2:05 pm
Whakatane
brothers Damon Rees (left) and Mitch Rees relax in the pit
zone between races at Whanganui s Cemetery Circuit event on
Boxing Day. Photo by Andy McGechan,
BikesportNZ.com
It couldn t have
gone much better than this for the men from Honda as the
world-renowned Cemetery Circuit event in Whanganui dished up
another scorcher on Boxing Day.
The traditional
post-Christmas affair, this year celebrating its 70th
anniversary on the public streets circuit, wound up the
three-round Suzuki International Series in classic style,
with Whakatane s Damon Rees taking his Honda CBR1000 to
dominate the premier Formula One/Superbike class on