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Stanford Medicine researchers found that two-thirds of incarcerated residents in California who were offered a COVID-19 vaccine accepted at least one dose, an encouraging sign that other jails and prisons nationwide can offer the same protection for their vulnerable carceral populations.
The May 12 study, a part of the Stanford-CIDE Coronavirus Simulation Model team, examined both how the vaccine was rolled out in incarcerated populations and how many individuals chose to get the vaccine. The research started last December, when vaccinations began, with data collection cutting off in March of this year.
California prisons have rapidly rolled out the vaccines and achieved high uptake, the study showed. Two-thirds of 97,779 incarcerated residents were offered a vaccine dose, and 66.5% of them accepted at least one. There were especially high vaccine acceptance rates nearly 80% among the most medically vulnerable incarcerated res
Apr 16, 2021 04:18 PM EDT
A Sydney couple was very frightened when they found an uncommon venomous snake in a bag of supermarket lettuce - but they recovered and then used the fresh produce in a salad wrap.
After discovering the baby pale-headed snake, Alexander White had so many thoughts that were troubling: What if the snake came from something else?
(Photo : Mark Broadhurst)
The young pale-headed snake (
Hoplocephalus bitorquatus), was folded into a two-pack of cos lettuce which Alexander White and Amelie Neate - his wife, bought from an Aldi supermarket in Sydney on Monday.
Alexander White said: It was moving all over and pulling its tiny tongue out. It was the tongue of the snake that allowed me to know it was not a giant worm. I would have been more relaxed with a worm, to be sincere.
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