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Coronavirus

A kid gets vaccinated in a drive-through clinic

Symposium

COVID-19 vaccines and kids

Published July 2, 2021

Public health and medical leaders explore the complexities of vaccinating kids during Johns Hopkins/UW symposium

Afterwords

Script revisions

Published Summer 2021

As script supervisor for the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs, Ari Halpern was deemed an essential employee during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic / Johns Hopkins Magazine

A vaccine is administered in someone's upper arm

Vaccines

Will we need a COVID-19 booster?

Published July 1, 2021

In the 'L.A. Times,' Johns Hopkins vaccine expert Kawsar Talaat discusses factors that may determine whether boosters are needed / Los Angeles Times

Coronavirus

Winning hearts and minds

Published June 30, 2021

Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Jennifer Nuzzo encourages empathy in conversations with COVID-19 vaccine skeptics

A woman with an oxygen tank is vaccinated for COVID-19

Vaccination

Health disparities and the racial burden of COVID-19

Published June 25, 2021

With new evidence suggesting Black and Hispanic populations were disproportionately affected by the pandemic, experts weigh in on the importance of vaccination and addressing health disparities

Jessie Kanacharoen created these photoshop images of the Beach on the Homewood campus surrounded by smog and turned into a literal beach

Undergraduate education

In a semester when the world still felt hemmed in by the virtual nature of most interactions, Krieger School faculty and teaching assistants had to draw on their creativity to connect with students through screens

Illustration of a crowd of people in the shape of the contiguous U.S.

Opinion

Data disarray damages COVID-19 response, expert says

Published June 17, 2021

Standardizing demographic data reporting practices across the U.S. should be a national priority to confront the current and future pandemics, according to Hopkins expert Beth Blauer

COVID-19 treatment

Drop in convalescent plasma use linked to excess deaths

Published June 16, 2021

Study suggests the declining use of the COVID-19 therapy at U.S. hospitals from November 2020 to February 2021 may have led to more than 29,000 excess COVID-19 deaths