The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/vaccine/page/2/)
Fourteen days after their final vaccine dose, students, faculty and staff will have quarantine waived for domestic travel and surveillance testing brought down to once per week.
The first episode of Suncast takes a look at the COVID-19 vaccine rollout on Cornell’s campus and the Ithaca area, addressing hesitancy toward the vaccine, the differences between vaccine manufacturers, a vaccinated campus and more.
With limited in-person interactions between lab members, professors conducting in-person lab research — tending to live organisms and training new students — are redefining collaboration as social-distancing guidelines continue to challenge how Cornellians can interact safely.
Tompkins County Health Department has created a COVID-19 vaccination registry, prompting more than 7,000 signups in the first week.
Cornell students who are frontline workers are eligible for the COVID vaccine. Yet there are still challenges to receiving it.
Pharmaceutical company Moderna announced promising results in its development of a coronavirus vaccine on Nov. 16.
Virus outbreaks are nothing new: in just the past 10 years, the world has been plagued with the H1N1 pandemic of 2009 and a resurgence of the Ebola virus from 2014 to 2016 — and it seems like such epidemics will continue for years to come.
Which begs the question, can scientists predict if, and when, we will see another new virus strike within the next several years?
Across the country, the last few weeks have brought with them the rise of influenza in homes, schools, communities, health centers and hospitals. As the spring semester begins, I’ve engaged with students, faculty and staff about preparing and responding to the flu season at Cornell. Many have asked: How bad is this year’s flu season likely to be? How does Cornell Health prepare? Are we as a community safe?
Following the high campus demand for flu shots in the spring that caused a 36-hour shortage of vaccinations, Cornell Health anticipates an even higher demand this fall, according to Anne Jones ’04, director of medical services at Cornell Health.
In the midst of the most intense flu season since 2009, it remains vitally important that all members of the Cornell community remember to get vaccinated. The failure of both Cornell Health and the Tompkins County Health Department to prepare adequately for this season’s demand is disappointing, but Cornellians and Ithacans alike should not let this inconvenience prevent them seeking out the vaccine where it is still in supply. Universities like Cornell are prime breeding grounds for communicable diseases like flu. The close quarters of dormitories, lectures, dining halls and dance floors bring us into contact with hundreds of people every day, each of them potential flu-carriers. Vaccination is the healthy and the smart choice.