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Making sense of the lagging U.S. COVID-19 vaccination effort

Published Jan 8, 2021

COVID-19 vaccines have been the subject of speculation and anticipation for months—so why hasn't the U.S. made more progress on vaccination?

Philanthropy

Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery receives $15M

Published Jan 7, 2021

Gift from trustee and philanthropist David M. Rubenstein will support research focused on the development of therapeutic approaches to preserve and restore hearing

Fighting food insecurity during a global pandemic

Published Jan 6, 2021

Jessica Fanzo, of JHU's Global Food Ethics and Policy Program, urges government cooperation to address the growing crisis / Nature

Maureen van Stone, Director of the Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Bonnielin Swenor, director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center

Disability and the democratic process

Published Jan 4, 2021

The 2020 election highlighted the ways the disability community is excluded from both the right to vote and access to voting

School of Medicine

Forging an accessible path

Published Dec 28, 2020

About a quarter of Americans have one or more disabilities. The School of Medicine is working to make success stories more common for students with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and mental health disorders.

An audience of nurses applauds as the first two health care workers are vaccinated at Sibley Memorial Hospital

COVID-19

'Another level of confidence and security'

Published Dec 22, 2020

The first Johns Hopkins health care workers receive the COVID-19 vaccine, marking a turning point in the coronavirus pandemic

Dr. Esen Akpek with Oleksandr Popruzhenko

Restoring vision

Published Dec 21, 2020

After losing his vision in a hand grenade explosion, Oleksandr Popruzhenko underwent surgery at the Wilmer Eye Institute to restore his eyesight—and his quality of life