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DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Two Latina doctors at Duke Health are all smiles after getting vaccinated for COVID-19. They're hoping this will let people of color know they can trust the vaccine.

Gabriela Maradiaga-Panayotti is a pediatrician and associate professor at Duke. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi is a family doctor and leads Duke's Health Equity Department for Family Medicine and Community Health.

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Trump Claims Credit for Vaccines. Some of His Backers Don’t Want to Take Them.

Sat, 2020-12-19 10:14 — mike kraft

WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Graves, an ardent supporter of President Trump, is not opposed to vaccines. She said she had taken flu shots and pneumonia shots and, having just turned 50, was interested in being vaccinated against shingles.

But Ms. Graves, a legal transcriptionist in Starkville, Miss., said she would not be taking a coronavirus vaccine — and the sight of Vice President Mike Pence rolling up his sleeve to get vaccinated on live television on Friday, she added, would not change her mind.

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Americans have converted to mask culture, survey finds

Fri, 2020-12-18 11:40 — mike kraft

Americans have converted to mask culture, survey finds Most Americans now accept the benefits of wearing masks and wearing them around others, a Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) survey published Friday finds. Mallika Kallingal and Maggie Fox, CNN CNN

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ANALYSIS: How Melbourne, Australia, eradicated Covid-19

Sat, 2020-12-05 19:59 — mike kraft

How Melbourne eradicated Covid-19 Life is almost back to normal in Melbourne, Australia. Here’s how they did it. Dylan Scott Vox

In July and August, the Australian state of Victoria was going through a second Covid-19 wave. Local leaders set an improbable goal in the face of that challenge. They didn’t want to just get their Covid-19 numbers down. They wanted to eliminate the virus entirely.

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Sturgis rally blamed for COVID-19 spread in Minnesota

Fri, 2020-11-20 19:19 — mike kraft

Sturgis rally blamed for COVID-19 spread in Minnesota A South Dakota motorcycle rally attended by nearly half a million people earlier this year resulted in at least 86 cases of COVID-19 among residents of Minnesota, including one death, according to a report released Friday by the Centers Jessie Hellmann TheHill

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Description of how people don't change their attitudes toward COVID despite the rising death toll.

Thu, 2020-11-19 13:36 — mike kraft

America’s 250,000 covid deaths: People die, but little changes Regardless of politics or location, attitudes about the coronavirus pandemic and associated behaviors stay pretty much the same. Marc Fisher, Shayna Jacobs, Pam Kelley Washington Post

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What's next for COVID-19 apps? Governance and oversight

Fri, 2020-11-13 19:41 — mike kraft

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Studies conducted in April and May 2020 showed that in countries like the United States, Switzerland, and Italy, between 55 and 70% of adults in all age groups were willing to download a contact tracing app (5).

Yet these figures do not match the current DCT apps uptake. Even in countries with robust privacy safeguards in place, downloads of DCT apps have been below expectations. At the time of writing, the Australian DCT app has been downloaded by 6.5 million (26% of the population), the Italian one by 8 million (13.4%), and the newly released French one by 1.5 million (2.3%). Ireland has about 1.3 million active app users (24%), Switzerland 1.8 million (21.5%), and Germany 16 million (19.3%).

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