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College towns felt ignored by universities and resented the students. Then COVID-19 hit. Chrissie Thompson, USA TODAY
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A dozen mayors wrote to Big Ten officials last fall. Football was returning to their communities, and they wanted help.
“We humbly request,” the mayors wrote, “a few practical measures that the Big Ten Conference can take to ensure we have the tools we need to combat the spread of COVID-19.”
A humble request. The words are telling: about where power lies, and where it doesn’t. And about where the leaders of these Big Ten college towns often dwarfed in size and in influence by their university neighbors fit into the conversation. Which is to say, often on the side.
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A 5/5/21 post by Katelyn Jetelina at her site Your Local Epidemiologist lays out the case for getting a COVID-19 vaccine even if you’ve tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 or recovered from the disease it can cause. The vaccines strengthen our immune response to the virus by giving us another “dose” of virus protection (the vaccine), she writes. And “the vaccine looks to better protect against variants than natural infection,” Jetelina writes, describing why Israel recently changed its policy from not vaccinating people with past SARS-CoV-2 infections to vaccinating them. The change was based on research, including a study of blood samples taken from health care workers after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, before vaccination and after vaccination. The resear
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with Alexandra Ellerbeck Virtually everyone was vaccinated at the joint session of Congress this week. Yet it still looked like a pandemic scene as President Biden addressed masked and distanced lawmakers in the House chamber.
The approach frustrated a number of public health experts, who are starting to question the Biden administration’s conservative approach to public health guidance despite highly effective and now widely distributed coronavirus vaccines. “Everyone could have been in that room,” said Monica Gandhi, professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. “If we’re all fully vaccinated, we could all be unmasked and distanced in that room.”
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