Let's Get Vaccinated!
While mask wearing and social distancing are effective ways to stop the spread of the virus, vaccination is the best way to achieve herd immunity to eventually end this pandemic.
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Why More Pre-Med Students Need to be Majoring in Public Health
When you think of a pre-med student, what’s the first major that pops into your head? Biology? Chemistry? Biochemistry? Microbiology? These...
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A Full Calendar Year of the COVID Pandemic: Reflections on Public Health, Politics and Morality
If your timelines and Instagram feeds are anything like mine, you’ve been seeing the slew of “this time last year was the last day of...
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Getting Candid About COVID-19
Almost a year after the United States shut down indefinitely and went into pandemic mode, the future still seems bleak and uncertain. The...
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What's Causing Your "Maskne" & 3 Ways to Treat It
The ongoing pandemic has ushered in many new norms for people all over the globe, and one change we’ve all had to make is regularly wearing...
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We All Can Do Better: Perspective from a Student and Public Health Worker
As I’m sure we are all aware, UMass hasn’t been doing too great in terms of COVID. With the spike in cases not even a week into the...
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I've Worked at a Grocery Store Through the Pandemic & Here's How It's Going
When the coronavirus pandemic broke out and sent us all into quarantine, I knew I didn’t want to sit at home doing nothing for months. So,...
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Biden Nominates Rachel Levine, First Openly Transgender Federal Official
Dr. Rachel Levine set to make LGBTQ+ history in her nomination for Assistant Secretary of Health.
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Top 5 Ski Resorts to Visit This Season: Pandemic Edition
'Tis my favorite time of the year, when the snow falls and the ski slopes open. However, with the pandemic, mountain fun will look very...
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New COVID-19 Restrictions in Time for the Holidays
In a typical year, as the holidays approach, we would be consumed with thoughts of Thanksgiving dinners, Black Friday shopping, buying the...
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The COVID-19 Vaccine: Is Normalcy Looming?
As the United States approaches its tenth month of battling with the COVID-19 pandemic, the death toll from the virus climbs exponentially...
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The Effects of COVID-19 on Small Town Hospitals
Now that all the big hospitals have been filling up and getting back on track, what has been going on with those smaller hospitals we haven’t heard much about?
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There Is no Climate Justice Without Racial Justice
“I can’t breathe.” These three words - first uttered by Eric Garner in 2014 and too many others that never had their stories told - once...
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¿Y esto porque me afecta?
A través de los pasados años se ha observado en Puerto Rico una ola de feminicidios rampantes, de los que apenas se ha escuchado una...
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How Police Brutality and Health Disparities Are Killing Black People in America
This summer, the alleged forgery of a $20 bill led to the murder of George Floyd , a Black 46-year-old man, who died moments after a police...
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Wearing Masks During Sex: Students' Reaction
With the province having gone into stage 3 of the pandemic, and businesses allowing the public back in, people are also getting back on the...
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The Failing of Higher Education
I’ve often wondered if a college education was worth the cost and I have never questioned it more than I do now. We are pushed by society...
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COVID-19 Is More Than a Pandemic
The outbreak-then-turned-pandemic reveals a horrifying truth about contemporary society: there’s no need for this many people to get infected.
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How Do We Keep Climate Action Alive During a Pandemic?
Answer: multisolving.
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Global Public Health Must Come Before Politics — A Look Into Taiwan's Exclusion From the WHO
When everyone is hoping the world to recover from the coronavirus outbreak, how could the Director-General of WHO bring hatred against Taiwan in the midst of a crisis?
