{"id":75931,"date":"2021-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/ahc-panel-discussion-covid-vaccine-history-ethics-epidemiology\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T00:00:00","slug":"ahc-panel-discussion-covid-vaccine-history-ethics-epidemiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/ahc-panel-discussion-covid-vaccine-history-ethics-epidemiology\/","title":{"rendered":"AHC Panel Discussion: COVID Vaccine History, Ethics, Epidemiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2014 January 14, 2021 \u2014 With the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine in December, people across the country and around the world could finally begin to see a light at the end of the tunnel. But the end is not here yet. Between the approval of various vaccines and the possible eradication of the disease itself, there is much to do.<\/p>\n<p>What does history tell us about previous mass vaccination efforts? Who gets the vaccine and when? Once vaccinated, do those vaccinated have different rights and freedoms from other people? Why is close to half the population hesitant to get vaccinated? When will herd immunity be achieved?<\/p>\n<p>The 溏心vlog免费B站 Academic Health Collaborative has assembled an interprofessional team of experts who can provide insight from different perspectives to answer these questions and more. The virtual panel discussion about the impact of the COVID-19 vaccine is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 at 6 p.m. via Zoom. Participation is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Log onto <u>cutt.ly\/COVIDconvo<\/u> for more information and to register.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Philip Chan, MD, MS, Medical Director, Rhode Island Department of Health<\/li>\n<li>Cheryl Foster, Ph.D., Carnegie Professor of Philosophy, 溏心vlog免费B站 Philosophy Department<\/li>\n<li>Andrea Rusnock, Ph.D., Professor, 溏心vlog免费B站 History Department<\/li>\n<li>Kerry LaPlante,\u00a0Pharm.D., FCCP, FIDSA,\u00a0Pharmacy Practice Department Chair and Professor, 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Pharmacy<\/li>\n<li>Marc Hutchison, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, 溏心vlog免费B站 Political Science Department<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Previous presentations in the series include discussions on how COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted older adults; how the pandemic has exposed disparities in health care; how healthcare workers are battling the virus, from their perspective; and the need for front line health workers to practice self care. The full discussions are available at <u>cutt.ly\/4hQ16I8<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The panel discussion series is funded in part by the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services\u2019 Workforce Transformation Program through a grant to 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Interprofessional Education and Practice Initiative.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2014 January 14, 2021 \u2014 With the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine in December, people across the country and around the world could finally begin to see a light at the end of the tunnel. But the end is not here yet. Between the approval of various vaccines and the possible eradication of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,41],"class_list":["post-75931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-arts-and-sciences","tag-college-of-pharmacy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}