10 Black Americans Who Have Led COVID-19 Response

By The Editorial Team, IntraHealth InternationalFebruary 22, 2022Meet 10 Black American leaders who are shaping local and national COVID-19 response. These scientists, researchers, policymakers, teachers, and more have seen first-hand how the pandemic exacerbates racial disparities in health. In the US, Black Americans have died from COVID-19 at1.4 times the rate of white people.Today we’re highlighting these leaders as they work to protect their communities and inform our global response to the pandemic.Christopher BarnesAssistant professor, Department of Biology at Stanford UniversityWhen COVID-19 began, Barnes was studying HIV as a senior postdoctoral fellow in biology and biological engineering and Hanna Gray Fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. So he pivoted to researching vaccines and antibody effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 variants. Now he studies how viruses such as COVID-19 affect humans, especially how the immune system responds.“Through our work, we can begin to tell a complete picture of what ' s happening within our immune response upon infection,”he says in an interview with Caltech.“Now that we know exactly how these antibodies bind and how they function, we can begin to think about ways in which we can combine them and make therapies.”He’s also been veryvocal about vaccine misinformation and considers it his job as a scientist to help people understand the science behind vaccines.“There ' s a lot of ...
Source: IntraHealth International - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: COVID-19 Health Workers Source Type: news