Jessica Pickett
Economics of health + development. Bridging evidence to policy across disciplines & regions. Incorrigible bookworm.
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Big Sisters
We model household investments in young children when parents and older siblings share caregiving responsibilities and when investments by older siblings contribute to young children’s human capital accumulation. Having an older sister rather than...
What the national media gets wrong in Southwestern Pennsylvania in 2020
As the national media comes to Southwestern Pennsylvania to cover on the election, local experts say the emphasis on fracking is overdone.
COVID-19 reinfection tracker
The table below shows confirmed cases of COVID-19 reinfection. The first confirmed case of reinfection was reported in Hong Kong on August 24, and six others were reported later that week. Earlier cases of suspected reinfection could not be...
Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old as well as young adults
One of the world's leading COVID-19 experimental vaccines produces a immune response in both young and old adults, raising hopes of a path out of the gloom and economic destruction wrought by the novel coronavirus.
She Used to Clean City Hall. Now, She Runs It.
In Russia, elections are typically theatrical affairs with the winner and loser preordained. Sometimes, though, they go off script.
Crews vacuum 'murder hornets' out of Washington nest
BLAINE, Wash. (AP) — Heavily protected crews in Washington state worked Saturday to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the United States. The state Agriculture...
The Least Livable Body in America's Most Livable City
Pittsburgh has been hyped as our most livable city—if you’re white, that is. My mom’s story—how she lived, and how she died—offers proof that if you’re a Black woman, it’s one of the worst cities in America.
Will Kids Get A COVID-19 Vaccine? Pfizer To Expand Trial To Ages 12 And Up
Pediatricians have been asking policy makers to include children in COVID-19 vaccine trials. Now, the FDA has given Pfizer approval to enroll adolescents as young as 12 years old.
Jessica Pickett
@Jess_Hoel Pfizer just started working their way down the age gradient, but you’re absolutely right that this is an under-discussed issue.
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Antibody Immunological Imprinting on COVID-19 Patients
While the current pandemic remains a thread to human health, the polyclonal nature of the antibody response against SARS-CoV-2 is not fully understood. Other than SARS-CoV-2, humans are susceptible to six different coronaviruses, and previous...
Social status alters immune regulation and response to infection in macaques
Rhesus macaques experience variable levels of stress on the basis of their position in the social hierarchy. To examine how stress affects immune function, Snyder-Mackler et al. manipulated the social status of individual macaques (see the...
Trump’s Vaccine Rush vs. the FDA: Inside Stephen Hahn’s “Existential Crisis”
Since almost the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the president has openly lobbied for a vaccine to claim as a political victory. Increasingly, eyewitnesses say, doctors, researchers, and the embattled head of the Food and Drug Administration have...
Serum Institute Of India
IAVI, Merck, and Serum Institute of India Join Forces to Develop Monoclonal Antibodies for COVID-19 and Ensure Prompt and Equitable Global Access
Partners aim to provide potent neutralizing...
The sources and correlates of exposure to vaccine-related (mis)information online
To assess the quantity and type of vaccine-related information Americans consume online and its relationship to social media use and attitudes toward …
Silicon Valley megadonors are unleashing a last-minute, $100 million barrage of ads against Trump
Facebook billionaire Dustin Moskovitz has put over $20 million into a little-known Democratic super PAC that is spending big.
Latin America’s embrace of unproven COVID treatment hinders drug trials
Unchecked ivermectin use in region is making it difficult to test anti-parasite drug’s effectiveness against the coronavirus.
Expert partnership to explore and establish Human Challenge studies of COVID-19 in the UK
£33.6 million government investment will back the studies in partnership with Imperial College London, hVIVO and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Jessica Pickett
UK announces details of human challenge trials to assess the minimal infectious dose of SARS-CoV-2.
Nothing about liability, insurance against any resulting disability, or participants perceptions of associated risks, though.
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The Town That Went Feral
When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.