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On COVID-19 vaccine and its bivalent vaccine with Professor Matthew Nugent

On COVID-19 vaccine and its bivalent vaccine with Professor Matthew Nugent

(Photo courtesy of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health site) “Covid boosters have been a thing for a year now. COVID-19 bivalent boosters have been approved this fall.” Kyra Barry Connector Editor Around the start of the academic school year, 2022, the FDA approved a new vaccine to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, a

The importance of equitably distributed vaccines amidst the Corona virus Pandemic

(Photo courtesy of Thirdway.org) With the Corona-virus pandemic still on going, the question and concern over the equitable distribution of the vaccine is an ever-growing and pressing issue.  Kyra Barry Connector Staff COVID-19 spurred a global pandemic that has struck the United States particularly hard. As of February 2021, cases have reached 27 million in