Undocumented in a pandemic

With an increase of COVID-19 cases across the US, a mixture of fear and disbelief has circulated in the communities. Many people, including immigrants, are confused with contradicting COVID-19 messages, and whether the severity of the pandemic is real.  For undocumented immigrants, finding a clinic is not as simple and often means searching through word […]

Tatiana Ramirez

07/16/2020

Search for coronavirus cure: U.S. scientists believe they have found a vaccine

As of April 3, there are over 1,000,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, and over 53,000 deaths reported worldwide, according to John Hopkins University. Due to possible underreporting, those numbers may be, in fact, bigger, U.S. intelligence suggests. How many clinical studies are there overall right now? As the number of deaths grows, so as the search for a […]

Vera Sauchanka

04/03/2020

First person gets experimental coronavirus vaccine in Seattle

While people across the country were ordered to stay home and all non-essential businesses to close down, there is some good news, too. This Monday, March 16, the first person got injected with a trial vaccine intended to prevent the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in healthy adults. The vaccine mRNA-1273 was developed by biotechnology company Moderna Inc […]

Vera Sauchanka

03/16/2020