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We are in a better situation than one year ago, but we are still in a tough one. right now-and perhaps the state of it globally? How you would describe the state of the pandemic in the U.S. But of course, human lives are not numbers. From a numbers standpoint, things seem better. Now we’re at roughly 51,000 new cases per day and 362 deaths. averaged more than 200,000 new cases and just under 2,500 deaths per day. So, with a hopeful tone, the Drexel News Blog checked in with the paper’s lead author Usama Bilal, PhD, an assistant professor at Dornsife, about his team’s recent findings and the current state of the pandemic locally and internationally. President’s chief medical advisor, made a comment this week that our country is no longer in a pandemic, but a “ transitional phase,” perhaps toward endemicity. Shortly after the paper was published, Anthony Fauci, MD, the U.S. The team found wide disparities in vaccination, with neighborhoods with higher levels of social vulnerability having the lowest vaccination rates.

#Drexel collective zip#

Researchers at Drexel’s Urban Health Collaborative used the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index – a measure that includes socioeconomic, housing, minority status, language and other factors to assess a community’s resilience against human suffering and financial loss when faced with a crisis – and looked at its association with COVID-19 vaccination in zip codes of the 16 cities. cities, including Philadelphia, Austin, San Francisco, Chicago and New York City.

#Drexel collective full#

The latest study, this month in the American Journal of Epidemiology, harkens back to December 2020 through September 2021, when the United States first started distributing the COVID-19 vaccines, and looked at full vaccination rates in neighborhoods of 16 large U.S. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, experts from Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health have researched disparities in testing, vaccination, health care access and other markers of the pandemic response.