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- UW Center for Human Rights on ICE and solitary confinement | KUOW18 hours ago
The Northwest Detention Center places more incarcerated people in solitary confinement than any other facility in the nation, says a new report from the UW Center for Human Rights. The Center’s director, Angelina Godoy, says that ICE records don’t match up with those of the prison operator, GEO Group, raising numerous red flags. [This is the third segment of the Dec. 1 episode of the "The Record.] - Study: 65 plant species have gone extinct in US, Canada | Seattle Weekly18 hours ago
More than 65 species of plants have gone extinct in the U.S. and Canada since European colonization, according to a new study. The study was conducted by a group of 16 experts from across the U.S., including UW biology Professor Richard Olmstead. The study showed that far more plant species have gone extinct on the continent than previously documented. - US panel: First vaccines to health care workers, nursing homes | Associated Press18 hours ago
Health care workers and nursing home residents should be at the front of the line when the first coronavirus vaccine shots become available, an influential government advisory panel said Tuesday. Beth Bell, clinical professor of global health at the UW, is quoted. - COVID-19 exposure notification apps become more widespread — but will they make a difference? | GeekWire18 hours ago
Since it launched on Monday, more than 700,000 Washington residents have installed or activated the WA Notify app. But even as the rate of adoption climbs, will the exposure notification app make a difference? Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted. - CDC panel recommends giving COVID-19 vaccines to healthcare workers first | The Guardian18 hours ago
A government panel on Tuesday formally recommended early doses of COVID-19 vaccines be given first to healthcare workers and long-term care facility residents in the US, generally seen as people who live in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Beth Bell, clinical professor of global health at the UW, is quoted. - Health workers, nursing home residents should get COVID vaccine first, panel says | US News18 hours ago
Health care workers and long-term care facility residents should be the first to get access to a coronavirus vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said Tuesday. Beth Bell, clinical professor of global health at the UW, is referenced. - CDC advisory panel takes first shot at prioritizing who gets the first shots of COVID-19 vaccines | Science18 hours ago
Health care workers and elderly people living in long-term care facilities should receive top priority for COVID-19 vaccines in the United States if, as expected, one or more becomes available next month in limited supply. That’s what a group that advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on such fraught issues decided today in a near unanimous vote. Beth Bell, clinical professor of global health at the UW, is quoted. - US averaging one COVID-19 death per minute: global heath expert | Business Insider19 hours ago
The U.S. is averaging one death from COVID-19 per minute, according to a Beth Bell, clinical professor of global health at the UW, who serves on an advisory panel under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. - In the time it takes CDC advisers to meet today, about 180 people will die from COVID-19, official says | CNN19 hours ago
Close to 2,000 people are now dying every day from Covid-19 in the United States – more than one every minute, federal vaccine advisers were reminded as they started a meeting Tuesday to discuss how to allocate coronavirus vaccines. Beth Bell, clinical professor of global health at the UW, is quoted. - CDC advisers call for 1st COVID-19 vaccines to go to health care workers, long-term care facilities | ABC News19 hours ago
A group of independent experts voted Tuesday that health care personnel treating patients -- as well as workers and residents in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities — should get the first shots of a COVID-19 vaccine when one is authorized by the Food and Drug Administration. Beth Bell, clinical professor of global health at the UW, is quoted. - Health workers, long-term care residents should get first doses of coronavirus vaccine, federal panel recommends | The Seattle Times19 hours ago
Health care workers on the frontlines against the coronavirus and residents of long-term care facilities should get the first doses of vaccines, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee decided Tuesday. Beth Bell, clinical professor of global health at the UW, is quoted. - Moms struggling with breastfeeding problems left adrift during COVID | Seattle's Child19 hours ago
Like most health and wellness services, the availability of lactation support has evolved with the pandemic. Virginia Wall, coordinator for UW Medical Center Lactation Services, is quoted. - Long-term-care residents and health workers should get vaccine first, CDC panel says | The New York Times19 hours ago
An independent panel advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Tuesday to recommend that residents and employees of nursing homes and similar facilities be the first people in the United States to receive coronavirus vaccines, along with health care workers who are especially at risk of being exposed to the virus. Beth Bell, clinical professor of global health at the UW, is quoted. - Virus may have arrived in US in December, but didn’t spread until later | The New York Times19 hours ago
Blood samples collected in mid-December indicate possible infections more than a month before the known first case of COVID-19, but do not show community transmission. Trevor Bedford, affiliate associate professor of genome sciences and of epidemiology at the UW, is quoted. - Experts warn of post-holiday COVID surge | MSNBC1 day ago
Dr. Vin Gupta, affiliate assistant professor of health metrics sciences at the UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, suggests that people stay quarantined if they have traveled over the holidays and then try to get a test seven days after possible exposure. - Building trust in vaccines | KOMO 41 day ago
Dan Bustillos, assistant professor of nursing and health studies at UW Bothell, says that it will take public education to get to the point where people understand the safety profile of a vaccine and feel enough trust to get the vaccine. - WA Notify on your smartphone is 'latest tool' in fight against pandemic | Q131 day ago
Gov. Jay Inslee said more than 200,000 people in Washington enrolled in WA Notify, the statewide exposure notification system for smartphones. Janet Baseman, professor of epidemiology at the UW, is interviewed. - SEA airport preparing to receive millions of ‘ultra-cold’ vaccine shipments | KIRO 71 day ago
Many of the first lifesaving doses of COVID-19 vaccine will arrive at Sea-Tac airport on traditional airliners, but it will not be handled like any traditional cargo. Jesse Erasmus, acting assistant professor of microbiology in the UW School of Medicine, is interviewed. - 'On Point': Nurses share stories from the coronavirus surge | WBUR1 day ago
Nine months. 13 million cases. More than 260,000 deaths. How are health care workers doing? "On Point" talks with nurses, including UW Medicine's Mary Jo Kelly, about what they've seen and how they've endured. - US air monitors routinely miss pollution - even refinery explosions | Reuters1 day ago
The government network of 3,900 air-quality monitoring devices nationwide has routinely missed major toxic releases and day-to-day pollution dangers. Dr. Joel Kaufman, professor of environmental and occupational health sciences, of epidemiology and of medicine, is referenced.
