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County Coronavirus has Outsized Impact on Communities of Color in Suffolk

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Black and Latino communities have been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, and on Long Island where communities are as segregated as they are, much of it comes down to geography. COVID-19 cases in Suffolk County have an identifiable curve. Data on maps provided by Suffolk County show a darkening red on a path rolling from the eastern end of the Island toward the west, homing in on the western center of the Island — Wyandanch, Brentwood and Huntington Station. In such areas, data also shows, is also where many minority communities live. Data from New York State’s Department of Health maps shows the coronavirus has disproportionately harmed black and Latino communities. Brentwood in particular has shown 3,473 cases, or nearly 55 per 1,000 persons. New York State Education Department data shows the Brentwood school district, as just an example, is nearly 85 percent Latino and almost 10 percent black. Huntington Station, another example of a location with large black and Latino populations, has just over 1,000 cases, or 33 persons per 1,00 have the virus. As testing continues, those numbers continue to grow. Though data showing the numbers of COVID-19 deaths is out of date, numbers from New York’s Covid tracker website show the percent of black residents who died from the virus was 12 percent, higher than the 8 percent share of the overall Suffolk population. For Latino residents, the fatality percent was 14 percent, lower than their population of 19 percent. While whites make up 81 percent of the population, their proportion of residents confirmed with the virus is only 64 percent. If the white population were suffering the same proportionate death ratio higher than their overall population, then dozens more white people would have already perished from COVID-19. “I’m not surprised by the information given,” said Brookhaven town Councilwoman Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station). “We need to be testing as much as possible, we need to be tracing, we need to make sure once we get that under control, we need to make sure people get treated.”

The COVID Hot Zones

Toward the beginning of April, Suffolk County established three “hot spot” testing centers in Wyandanch, Brentwood and Huntington. Those sites quickly established a higher rate of positive cases compared to the county’s other sites, especially the testing center at Stony Brook University. A little more than a week ago, such hot spot sites were showing 53 percent of those tested were positive. On Tuesday, April 29, that number dropped slightly to 48 percent hot spot positive tests compared to 38 percent for the rest of the county.

Though such testing centers didn’t arrive until more than a month into the crisis, county leadership said plans for such sites developed as data slowly showed where peak cases were. “When we started working with the IT department to find the addresses where these cases were, Southold was leading,” said Dr. Gregson Pigott, the Suffolk Department of Health Services commissioner. “Then Huntington Station became the hot spot. Then Brentwood became the leader in cases, and to this day Brentwood has the most cases.” Suffolk County has also started plans for recovery after things finally start to open up. The Recovery Task Force is being headed by multiple partners, including Vanessa Baird Streeter, an assistant deputy county executive. The task force will need to provide aid, but Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) said there needs to be emphasis on addressing the glaring inequities, and put an emphasis on “coming back stronger.” “There’s no question the issue is we know there have been disparities,” he said. “The crisis like this is only going to exacerbate those issues and have those disparities grow.” But as it became clear to officials the virus was greatly impacting the majority of minority communities harder than others, said communities were watching day by day how the virus was upending lives, infecting whole households and leaving many without any chance of providing for their families.

Latino Community During Coronavirus

Martha Maffei, the executive director for Latino and immigrant advocacy group SEPA Mujer, said Latino communities are hit so hard especially because of many people’s employment. Either they were effectively let go, or they are working in jobs that if they tried to take time off, they would be out of a job. Instead, such workers, even in what has already been deemed “nonessential business,” are still going to work even in places where workers have already gotten sick. “We were receiving calls of jobs they know the workplace has been infected, they continue to ask employees to come to work,” she said. “They don’t have the option to say no, because they’re basically forcing them and they don’t want to lose their jobs.” A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in early April found approximately 41 percent of Latinos have lost their jobs since the start of the pandemic, compared to just 24 percent white and 32 blacks being laid off or furloughed. This jives with research showing about 50 percent of people on the lower income scale have either lost their job or had to take a pay cut. Many who relied on their jobs to support their families have now lost them completely, and since many are undocumented, they have no access to any kind of federal assistance. In homes that are often multigenerational and cramped, workers

Suffolk County health services commissioner Gregson Pigott shares COVID facts in Spanish online April 8. Photo from Facebook video

out on the front lines come home and have very little means of sequestering themselves. SEPA Mujer also advocates for women in violent domestic situations, and Maffei said its crisis hotline phone has been ringing daily. Bellone has told reporters the incidents of domestic violence are up 3.5 percent from early to mid April. At issue is the immigrant community’s trust in local government and law enforcement, and that same government’s ability to get the life-saving and virus-mitigating information to them. The hot spot testing centers now include Spanish-speaking translators, at least one per each, according to Pigott. Bellone also announced, working with nonprofits Island Harvest and Long Island Cares, they are providing food assistance to visitors at the testing sites. Brentwood is already seeing those activities, and Wyandanch will also start providing food April 30. When the first hot spot site opened in Huntington Station, Maffei said she had clients who were struggling to schedule an appointment. Though she suspects it has gotten better with more sites opening up in western Suffolk, true help to the community should come in the form of facilitating access to information. “We’re trying to do the best we can, but a lot of people don’t have access to the internet, don’t have Facebook,” Maffei said. Pigott related the county is providing multilanguage information via their website and brochures at the testing sites, but community advocates argue there is a demand for such details of where people can get tested and how they can prevent infection, straight into the hands of people, possibly through mailings or other mass outreach.

Why Minority Communities are Vulnerable

Medical and social scientists, in asking the first and likely most important question, “why?” said the historic inequities in majority minority populations are only exacerbated by the SARSCoV-2 virus. Dr. Johanna Martinez, a physician with Northwell, is in the midst of helping conduct a

research project to work out the variables that are leading to how the pandemic has deepened and exacerbated existing inequities. “It’s not something biological that is different between black and Latino people. It really is the historical inequities, like racism, that has led to the patients being marginalized,” Martinez said. “It is most closely linked to social determinants.” The links are plain, she said, in socioeconomic status, level of education, the general neighborhood, and perhaps most importantly, one’s access to health care. Immigrant communities are especially likely to lack insurance and easy communication with doctors. It’s hard for one to know if one’s symptoms should necessitate a hospital visit if one also doesn’t have a doctor within phone’s reach. It also means an increased spread of the virus and a potential increased load on hospitals. “If you’re uninsured, the place where you’re going to get health care from is the emergency room,” the Northwell doctor said. “Right now, we’re trying to use telemedicine, but if you don’t have an established primary care doctor, you don’t have the ability to speak to the doctor of the symptoms you’re having and if this is something you can stay home for or go to the hospital.” Current data released by New York State has mostly been determining age, as its wellknown vulnerable people include the elderly, but Martinez’ data is adjusting for other things like comorbidities. Data shows that diabetes, hypertension and obesity put one at a higher risk for COVID-19-related death, and studies have shown poorer or communities of people of color are at higher risk for such diseases. “It’s almost like a double whammy,” she said. “It’s something that makes them even more vulnerable to a very serious disease.” Housing is also a factor. Once one leaves the hospital, or on recommendation from a doctor, it’s easy to tell people who are showing symptoms to isolate a certain part of the house, but for a large family living in a relatively small space, that might just be impossible. Whether Suffolk’s numbers detailing the number of confirmed COVID patients is accurate, Martinez said she doubts it, especially looking at nationally. Newsday recently reported, upon looking at towns’ death certificates compared to New York’s details on fatalities, there could be many more COVID deaths than currently thought. “We need more testing to see the prevalence in certain communities,” she said. Cartright, who works as a civil rights attorney, said these factors are what the government should be looking at as the initial wave of COVID-19 patients overall declines. “We know black people are dying at a disproportionate rate,” she said. “We need to look at how many people are living in the same household, how many people actually have health care, how many are undocumented who were scared of going to the emergency room. There are so many factors we need to be able to take a look at.”

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Recovered COVID-19 Patient Grateful for Hospital Staff BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM One Northport resident’s experience with the coronavirus led him to the brink of death, and now that he’s back at home, he’s beyond grateful for those who nursed him back to health. Scott November, 66, was Huntington Hospital’s first ventilated patient who has survived and recovered from COVID-19. After a journey that took him from at first not being able to be tested for the virus and trying to recoup at home, to a hospital visit that led to him being on a ventilator, November has now put 10 days of rehabilitation and more than a week of at-home quarantine behind him. As of April 24, he was finally able to see family members, even though it was from a distance. “I was really exceptionally well and lovingly cared for in the hospital,” November said. The father and grandfather, who is a purchasing and global operations manager for a brass fitting company in Brooklyn, said early in March he attended parties for his grandchildren. He said he was feeling fine, moving tables and kissing and hugging everyone. The next day he went to work and felt good at the office and driving home at the end of the workday. However, when he arrived home and sat down for dinner, he began to shake violently. He had the chills, and when he took his temperature, he had a fever of 100.6 degrees. He laid down in the guest room and decided to stay in there until he got better as he didn’t want to infect his wife, he said. Despite trips to two different urgent care facilities, he wasn’t tested for the coronavirus at the beginning of his illness as he wasn’t presenting with all the symptoms, and he was just given flu tests which came out negative. November, who has psoriatic arthritis and diabetes, said looking back he understands why he wasn’t tested at the time as there weren’t enough tests available. When he made a second trip to one of the urgent care locations, he was given an X-ray to see if he had pneumonia. While the health care professionals there read it as negative, it was sent out to a radiologist who noticed spots on his lungs and saw pneumonia. November said he took his health in his own hands and spoke with an administrator at the urgent care and his call was passed on to one of the heads of the chain, who went through his information and saw the radiologist’s report. It was then the Northport resident was told to get tested for COVID-19. He was able to get the test March 16, but that night his symptoms worsened. His wife called his primary physician where she was instructed to call an ambulance. EMT personnel soon showed up in full hazmat uniforms, and he was brought to the emergency room at Huntington Hospital. He said the new emergency center has individual

Above, Scott and Shelley November with their children and grandchildren. On the cover: Scott November leaves the rehabilitation center with his wife, Shelley, at the wheel, Photos from the November family

rooms with doors so he was able to be isolated as he was in a room for two days until it was determined he should be taken to the critical care unit and be put on a ventilator. Though, he said, he has no recollection of the move to the CCU as he was in a medically-induced coma. He called the nurses heroes and added that they can’t practice social distancing like others while caring for patients. All they have between themselves and the patients, he added, are gloves, sheer gowns and face coverings. “They have to trust that they’ll stay safe,” he said. “They’re heroes. They went beyond the extra mile.” November said he is grateful that his caregivers did everything they could to keep in touch with his family regularly through phone calls and FaceTime and answered their questions about his condition since COVID-19 guidelines prevent visitors at hospitals. “It’s so important for families and caregivers to have a bond and have communication,” he said. “It made me a real person.” To make up for the lack of family interaction, the nurses hung up family photos and his grandchildren’s drawings on the hospital room walls. His wife, Shelley, said the health care workers felt her family’s desperation, and at times nurses would fix her husband’s hair and even stroke his head to comfort him. November said he was told there were

several patients in the CCU while he was there, and he witnessed health care professionals scrambling to learn more about the novel virus, even joining online forums to talk to other nurses and doctors around the country. November is grateful to be alive, he said, as he heard that others on ventilators lost their battles against the virus. Not only that, he almost died himself. His wife had received a call during his stint in the hospital that he was close to death, but the nurses tried one more thing. They heard that putting patients in a prone position helped to increase oxygen intake, and they decided to put him on his stomach. The move worked. While November was in the hospital, his wife, who is 65, also came down with the coronavirus, though she didn’t need to be hospitalized. She said while she was fortunate not to be admitted to the hospital, it was tough dealing with everything, and when she was at her worst, her husband was also at his. Both she and her husband are grateful that their children Jordan, Courtney and Remy were able to help out, leaving groceries by their mother’s door when she needed to quarantine. When the husband was finally extubated and able to leave the CCU, he said he had no core strength and wasn’t self-sufficient so he was sent to a rehab facility. Then days after entering rehab, he was able to walk 300 feet, climb three flights of stairs and become self-sufficient enough to use the bathroom and groom himself on his own.

On April 17 he left rehab, and after eight days of quarantining at home, he said he was thrilled to see his family, even if it was from a distance. When it comes to getting through the rough times, November said he is a big believer in science and knows everything the doctors and nurses did and all the research being done played a part in his recovery. Calling himself an agnostic, he added he also believes it has something to do with the diverse groups of friends he and his wife, as well as his children, have. “There were prayers to God, to Jesus, to Allah,” November said. “There were prayers to everybody on my behalf.” He said his recovery and being able to unite with his family is bittersweet though, because he knows of the many lives that have been lost to the coronavirus. Knowing that he is also concerned for those who have not been able to mourn for their loved ones with funerals and services. “They’re not a number. Each one of them is a human being,” he said. “Mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, children, grandchildren, coworkers, friends — they have their camaraderie.” His wife agreed that families are destroyed, and it’s frustrating for nurses who put the same efforts into everyone’s care. “It’s really hard to understand why he was spared,” she said. “Why did the universe have mercy on us and not others, and it’s hard to live with that.”

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Editorial

Love Thy Neighbor

As the number of COVID-19 cases rise in minority communities at a higher rate than primarily white areas, North Shore residents may think those numbers don’t affect them, but they do. The members of these communities are our co-workers, our restaurant workers, our laborers, our neighbors — whether they live next door or in the next town. The pandemic has made it glaringly obvious many of our society’s problems, among them the disparities minorities face on Long Island. A good deal of information coming out about coronavirus cases shows that black and Hispanic Americans are dying of the disease at rates higher than Caucasians. In Suffolk black residents make up 13 percent of those who have died from the virus and Latinos 14 percent. These numbers are high considering black Americans make up just 8 percent of Suffolk County residents. Latinos are approximately 19 percent of the population, but the number of cases among the immigrant community is likely very undercounted, as crucial information about the virus has had a harder time reaching non-English speakers. Many from these communities work “essential” jobs in service and blue-collar industries, many of which pay a lower income overall. This can lead to poor or no health care, which would hinder someone from visiting a doctor when they become sick. It also means many who would rather stay home lack a choice but to go out and work, potentially bringing the virus home to their families. While Suffolk has identified areas where higher populations are testing positive for COVID-19, and in turn are extending testing in those areas, more can be done for these populations. This virus has reminded us that our health care system needs an overhaul — and that these populations are at greater risk due to higher cases of heart disease and diabetes. While it may be too late to make major changes during this pandemic, there are small things we can do right now. For one, this is no time for one to worry about a person’s immigration status. During a pandemic, as health care professionals and elected officials try to manage the storm, everyone who is currently in the U.S. needs to know they can go to a hospital with no questions asked to receive the care they need. There also needs to be a way to provide alternating housing for those who come down with the virus, whether that means opening up hotel rooms or college dorms. There are many, right here on Long Island, who live in crowded apartments and houses. Situations like those make it difficult for someone to isolate themselves from others to prevent more infections. For those living in houses with multiple generations, this also presents a huge danger to vulnerable populations like the elderly. Personal protective equipment has been in short supply throughout the country, and it’s up to elected officials as well as business owners to ensure that their employees have the proper amount of gloves, masks and other gear to do their jobs. It shouldn’t matter whether they’re on the front lines at hospitals or cleaning bathrooms in a medical facility, serving as home health aides, delivering groceries or working the fields. There is always more we can do for our friends and neighbors. One day this pandemic will pass but let’s hope the lessons we’ve learned, especially about those who have suffered because of inequities, will stick with us and inspire us to do better.

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Bankruptcy of State is Not the Answer The fight against the coronavirus is unlike any battle our county, state and country have ever faced. Our entire way of life flipped on its head seemingly overnight because of a pandemic that swept the globe. That’s why it’s critical we rise to meet this challenge not as Republicans, not as Democrats, but as Americans in a non-partisan manner to deliver for those who need it most. In Suffolk County, everyone in and out of government didn’t just talk the talk, we walked the walk, working to deliver the resources our brave health care and other front line workers need to fight coronavirus on the ground in our communities. In just the last month alone, working with everyone and anyone from the White House to Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D), I’ve worked together with these partners to deliver over 1.2 million pieces of Personal Protective Equipment, including surgical masks, N95s masks, face coverings, gowns and more. Our health care workers are putting their health and safety on the line and have earned nothing less than everything they need to do their jobs safely and effectively. When it comes to allocating federal funding for these hospitals and health care facilities, we must drive appropriated funding to the hardest hit medical providers, like those in New York, and better factor in revenue losses and COVID-19 expenses when further

deciding on funding formulas. Following my direct advocacy to the Department of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of HHS started driving CARES Act funding specifically to our hard-hit hospitals. In addition to funding for our local hospitals, Suffolk County received $257 million in federal funding for coronavirus related expenses. As one of the country’s hotspots, this will go a long way in alleviating costs for local government, but there’s more we can do to drive desperately needed funding to our communities. This includes adding flexibility on how this funding is spent in order to help the county government best survive this pandemic. Funding also should be driven directly to smaller local governments as well. Currently, Federal Emergency Management Agency Disaster Aid is 75 percent federally funded and requires a 25 percent non-federal contribution. This unprecedented time must be matched by an unprecedented commitment from the federal government, and it must cover 100 percent of FEMA Disaster Aid. At a time when our local resources are at a breaking point, the federal government must continue stepping up to the plate. That’s why I’m also advocating for the Department of Treasury and Federal Reserve to expand access to what is called the Municipal Liquidity Facility. The Municipal Liquidity Facility helps

states and localities deal with budgetary stresses caused by the ongoing outbreak of coronavirus, by allowing the federal government to purchase up to $500 billion in short-term notes for these localities. This injection of $500 billion allows states and localities to continue to finance the delivery of essential services for their residents despite current budgetary shortfalls. Currently, a county must have over two million residents to qualify for the Municipal Liquidity Facility, and with Suffolk County’s population currently estimated at 1.5 million, I’m urging the federal government to lower this requirement to over one million residents so Suffolk County can utilize this support. Additionally, as Congress negotiates additional coronavirus response legislation, it’s important to very strongly consider that our states and local governments hardest hit — like we have experienced in the worst way in New York — are desperate for additional federal resources to finish the battle against coronavirus. Bankruptcy is not the answer. Federal support is critical in this effort. Every level of government has continued to work together to deliver for Suffolk County, and we’re not slowing down. Ensuring we continue to partner in a non-partisan manner will ensure we emerge stronger than ever on the other side of this battle. U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1)

In these scary and unprecedented times it is hard to imagine what life will be like once we are able to move freely amongst our peers again. Every day I wake up, trying to remember what day of the week it is, and prepare myself for another day of “distance learning” for both me and my daughter. Together we work on our respective tasks and then we move on to what has become our new routine of playing outside, going for walks, painting and creating uplifting messages to write in chalk at the end of our driveway. Around 11:30 a.m. I prepare myself for Gov. Cuomo’s daily briefing, and I watch and listen intently to what our tireless leader has to share. For those who are too ignorant to grasp the severity and reality of this global pandemic and can only find complaint and ridicule in the length of our state-wide shutdown, I ask you to take a good long look at what is happening in New York. I’m not asking too much, I don’t want

you to acknowledge that this is affecting the entire world, I just want you to glance beyond Trumpian rhetoric and look at the numbers. I want you to recognize that the U.S. has surpassed every country in the world with cases of this horrific virus, that New York has far exceeded the numbers of any other state in our union and that Suffolk County currently has more cases than 45 states. I want every New Yorker, whether a Cuomo fan or not, to yield to the fact that he has handled this situation with nothing less than grace, empathy, intelligence, fortitude, patience and a humanity that is sorely lacking in the current federal administration. Every day we are given a detailed, informative update on our current situation from the man leading our state. He is not trying to punish us or impede upon our rights, he is trying to keep us alive. Yes, our economy is faltering. Yes, our kids are not getting the same level

of education that they would receive in their classrooms. Yes, we can’t go out gallivanting to our hearts’ desires, but we have the capacity to come out of this stronger than ever before. We have fearless health care workers and other essential employees doing the work that I do not envy. They are putting themselves out there so we don’t have to and people would rather complain about being kept home then say thank you, and I’ll see you when it’s safe again. Those who are determined to remain misinformed and oblivious to our reality I ask you to, just once, think about the millions of other people who would like to come out of this on the other side. When the virus is in check, and we can resume some sort of normalcy you can put Fox News back on and enjoy, but for the sake of everyone else, put it on PAUSE, stay home, stop the spread and save lives. New York Tough! Stefanie Werner East Setauket

We Have the Capacity to Come Out of This Stronger

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Opinion

An Interview with an Evasive Subject: Me

am a journalist, which means I know a tiny bit about numerous subjects, but I am out of my depth once the questions dive below the surface. Oh, sure, I can play the journalistic game, where I throw around some terms, but I’m certainly not qualiﬁed to answer the best questions I could ask. Nonetheless, given the quarantine and the difﬁculty of getting people who are D. None informed, funny, or of the above funny and informed BY DANIEL DUNAIEF on the phone these days, I’m going to interview myself about the state of the world. Question: How do you think we’re doing? Answer: Well, that kind of depends. If we’re talking about humans in general, I would say we’re struggling. We were struggling before,

but this virus has pushed us deeper into our struggles. Question: Are we any better off today than we were yesterday or maybe last week or the week before? Answer: Yes, yes we are. Question: Do you care to elaborate? Answer: No, no I don’t. Question: Come on! You can’t just ignore me. I need to know. Answer: No, you don’t. You’ll read what I write and then you’ll move on to the comment section of other articles, where clever people share their witticisms. Question: Wait, how do know about the satisfaction I get out of some of the better comments? Answer: Are you really asking that question? Question: No, let’s get back on topic. If we’re better off today than we were yesterday or last week, will that trajectory continue? If it does, are we going to be able to live our lives with a new normal that’s more like the older normal, or will we have to wear masks and practice the kind of safe distancing

that makes people long for the days when Jerry Seinfeld was annoyed on his show by a “close talker,” who, in the modern era in New York, would probably get a ticket for his close talking habit? Answer: You had to pander with a TV reference, didn’t you? Don’t answer that! Anyway, yes, the trajectory looks better than it did, but there’s no guarantee it won’t change. You see, it’s a little like the stock market. Just because a company’s past performance is solid or impressive doesn’t guarantee anything about its future. Question: Right, right. So, do you think my kids will ever get out of the house again? Answer: You buried that question down low, didn’t you? Well, yes, I think they will return to a version of school that may also be different, but that also has some similarities to what they knew. Question: Oh, good. Wait, so, you don’t really know, do you? Answer: I do know that schools are pushing hard to solve the riddle, the conundrum, the enigma, the total ##$@!$ fest that has

become the modern world. I know that parents the world over would like to go to the bathroom without someone following them into the room. I know that people would like to talk on the phone without worrying that their kids are listening, that people need adult alone time, and that the Pythagorean theorem isn’t going to teach itself. Question: What does the Pythagorean theorem have to do with anything? Answer: It’s out there and it’s on the approved list of things to learn. Are we almost done? Question: Yes, so what do you think about the election? Answer: I think it’ll happen in November and it’ll be an interesting opportunity to exercise our democratic rights. Question: Who do you think will win? Answer: An old man. Question: Which one? Answer: The one who yells at us through the TV. Question: They both do. Answer: Then I’m going to be right.

Two Poets as Bookends for the COVID-19 Months

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t’s May, it’s May, the merry month of May!” according to the Elizabethan poem by Thomas Dekker and then twisted a bit to “lusty month of May” by “Camelot’s” Lerner and Loewe. I’m willing to believe them, if you are, and there are a couple of items of good news that we can celebrate in our war against the novel coronavirus as the month begins. First is the unexpected progress coming from the Between University of Oxyou and me ford toward a vacBY LEAH S. DUNAIEF cine. Despite the earliest hopes for such an effective halt to the COVID-19 pandemic involving a 12 to 18- month timetable,

which would suggest toward the end of 2021, it turns out that scientists at Oxford’s Jenner Institute are way ahead. They have been holding previous clinical trials against an earlier coronavirus that are proving harmless to humans. Having cleared that major hurdle, now they can go to the head of the international race. They will be holding trials involving over 6,000 people with their new vaccine toward the end of the month. Not only do they want to show that the vaccine is safe but also that it works. Then, “with an emergency approval from regulators, the ﬁrst few million doses of their vaccine could be available by September — at least several months ahead of any of the other announced efforts — if it proves to be effective,” according to an article by David D. Kirkpatrick that appeared on the front page of this past Tuesday’s The New York Times. There is evidence from the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana that this new Oxford vaccine may indeed work. It has been in a limited animal trial there and found to protect against COVID-19.

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Other scientists at Oxford “are working with a half dozen drug manufacturing companies across Europe and Asia to prepare to churn out billions of doses as quickly as possible if the vaccine is approved. None have been granted exclusive marketing rights, and one is the giant Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest supplier of vaccines,” according to the Times. The idea of having several is to obtain billions of doses quickly and to avoid anyone making a lot of money from the pandemic. There are a couple of American companies that are also doing research, along the same lines as Oxford, of altering the virus’s genetic material and conducting small clinical trials. They too must demonstrate both safety and effectiveness. The same goes for a Chinese company. Another avenue of defense against COVID-19 is the use of blood plasma from the disease’s survivors on other desperately ill patients. Again, according to another article in Wednesday’s The New York Times by Audra D.S. Burch and Amy Harmon, the treatment may work. This involves ﬁnding survivors, with the same blood type as the ill patient, who will

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