As the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States in early 2020, there was a vast shift in the daily activities of Americans. Many feared leaving the house, people were quarantining their groceries before eating, and business as usual was disrupted for nearly every sector. As part of this disruption to the norm, routine healthcare visits […]
THE FIGHT AGAINST POLIO First identified in 1908, poliovirus causes poliomyelitis, or polio disease. Although it has impacted humans for centuries, epidemics arose in the early twentieth century with increasing frequency in Australia, Europe, and North America. Before a polio vaccine became available, several polio epidemics occurred between 1948 and 1955 killing nearly half a […]
A Conversation with Dr. Kawan As the United States approaches 2 full years of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health problems are at all-time high children. Early adolescence is when youth already experience rapid change physically, emotionally, and socially, and the COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense disruption to this delicate stage in life. The continuous stress, […]
A Conversation with Dr. Cisneros Pennsylvania has made great strides toward battling the highly infectious COVID-19 virus, including administering more than 20 million doses of the vaccine, with nearly 65% of the total PA population fully vaccinated as of January 2022. However, there has been a dramatic spike in the number of cases, especially in […]