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COVID-19 Update: Vaccines, Variants, and Reopenings
With vaccine distribution making headway across the globe, businesses reopening, and schools resuming in-person learning, many aspects of people’s lives are finally returning to normalcy. However, though we may be at the beginning of the end of this pandemic, it is still critical that everyone continues to take precautions to stay safe from new variants. […]
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The Quarry Lane Science Olympiad Team Sets New Records Despite COVID
The pandemic has caused various extracurricular activities or events to be canceled, but this isn’t the case for the Quarry Lane Science Olympiad team, a school club that competes in various events across all fields of science such as biology, chemistry, etc. Unlike other science competitions, Science Olympiad is a team activity and each event […]
MoreWhy We Need Two Doses of the COVID-19 Vaccine
It is common knowledge that COVID-19 vaccines only fully take effect when patients receive two doses, with the recommended time between each shot being three weeks for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and four weeks for the Moderna vaccine. However, misleading articles and information questioning the need for the second vaccine dose that are circulating around the […]
MoreKey Players of South Asian Origin in the Biden-Harris Administration
South Asians in the house! — my cousin cheers between mouthfuls of samosa and peanut chutney as Kamala Harris is sworn in as Vice President of the United States on screen. It’s a day as celebratory as it is surreal — especially for the ‘South Asians in the house’, who are scattered across the country watching one of the most unprecedented inaugurations in history. I knew I was going to see a female president or vice-president hold that Bible on camera during my lifetime. The world has seen female presidents a
MoreWisconsin pharmacist Arrested for Allegedly Destroying COVID-19 Vaccine. What Now?
On December 31st, 2020, a Wisconsin pharmacist was arrested following the destruction of over fifty-seven vials of the Moderna vaccine. Steven Brandenburg, worker at the Advocate Aurora Health Care Center, is accused of deliberately tampering with approximately five-hundred doses of the latest COVID-19 vaccine.
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