COVID & Community
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Global health expert Pam Berenbaum eyes the route to herd immunity (video)
As part of or research into COVID-19 this fall, I sat down with Pam Berenbaum, director of the Global Health Program at Middlebury College, for a Zoom interview.…
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UVM Medical School professor pivots to COVID research (video)
Across the country, researchers are shifting their focus to study SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. I recently spoke to a researcher right in our backyard who made…
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Debunking common misconceptions about COVID-19
MYTH: Rurality protects communities from COVID-19 In the beginning of the pandemic, it was suggested that living in a rural area could protect people from COVID-19. Most of…
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COVID-19 exposes basic problems with our health care system
More than 1.8 million people have died due to COVID-19 all around the world. Although there is no question that the causative agent of this disease, the SARS-CoV-2…
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Local resident successfully navigates complex COVID-19 advice
As we explored in the story about basic problems with our health care system, Vermonters, like Americans in general, face barriers to getting testing and treatment for COVID-19. In…
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Contributing authors in our COVID and COMMUNITY series
Students in Prof. Lindsay Repka’s fall Biochem class at Middlebury College took an in-depth look at the science of coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, and created…
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Middlebury’s Jim Greenamyre sees change in the COVID-19 era (video)
As part of our research into COVID-19 and how it affects people here in Addison County, our Middlebury College biochemistry class sought interviews with local people on the…
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Joelle Logan and Project Independence adapt to the pandemic (video)
As part of our research into COVID-19 and how it affects people here in Addison County, our Middlebury College biochemistry class sought interviews with local people on the…
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COVID & Community: Debunking misconceptions about the virus
This is part of the package of COVID-related stories produced by Middlebury College students in Professor Lindsay Repka’s biochem class during the fall of 2020. Read the rest…
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COVID & Community: How they created the vaccine so quickly
This is part of the package of COVID-related stories produced by Middlebury College students in Professor Lindsay Repka’s biochem class during the fall of 2020. Read the rest here.…
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New vaccines play off a long tradition of disease fighting
By Priya Kaur, Sloane Parker and Sophia Marlino COVID-19 has led scientists to search for the right vaccine that will help us end this pandemic. The newest forms…