rates

2Apr

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COVID-19, VIDEO REELS

Racial Disparities In Booster Rates Persist – Low Vaccine Booster Rates Are Now A Key Factor In COVID-19 Deaths

More than 450 people are dying of COVID-19 in the U.S. each day as of late August 2022. When COVID-19 vaccines first became available, public officials, community organizations and policymakers mobilized to get shots into arms. These efforts included significant investments in making vaccines accessible to Black, Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native populations. These groups experienced exceptionally high COVID-19 death rates early in the pandemic and had low initial vaccine rates. The efforts worked. As of August 2022, vaccination rates for the primary series – or required initial doses of COVID-19 vaccines – for Black and Hispanic people exceeded those of white Americans. But boosters are a different story. Comparable booster vaccine promotion efforts have been lacking. Confusi...

For New Oil And Gas Drilling Leases Royalty Rates Have Increased

4Apr

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BUSINESS

For New Oil And Gas Drilling Leases Royalty Rates Have Increased

The Biden administration will open roughly 144,000 acres for leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands and waters, with royalty rates increased for the first time since the 1920s, DOI said Friday. Oil and gas drillers will now need to pay 18.75% royalties, a 50% increase from the 12.5% rate established when the federal government first imposed them about a century ago. Biden paused oil and gas drilling during his first week in office but a court order, and concern over high gasoline prices, are compelling the administration to offer leases. The most recent UN IPCC report concluded that even existing fossil fuel infrastructure puts the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F) out of reach, and building additional carbon-intensive infrastructure only further seals o...

Video: Current rates of vaccine hesitancy in the US could mean a long road to normalcy

3Apr

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COVID-19, VIDEO REELS

Video: Current rates of vaccine hesitancy in the US could mean a long road to normalcy

Poltical scientist Matt Motta studies the social and political determinants of anti-science attitudes. In this Q&A, he answers questions about the current levels of vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. and how that might affect the country’s ability to achieve herd immunity after a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available. Matt Motta, a scholar who studies political and science communication, explains why herd immunity may be difficult to achieve in the U.S. How many people plan to take a COVID-19 vaccine? Our understanding is that the number of Americans who plan to refuse a vaccine for COVID-19, when it becomes available, is quite pervasive. Somewhere between 1 in 5 to 1 in 3 Americans plan to refuse a vaccine depending on the survey and how you ask the questions. Research that my colleagues and ...

What policing during the pandemic can tell us about crime rates and arrests

15Apr

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COVID-19, IN OTHER NEWS

What policing during the pandemic can tell us about crime rates and arrests

Social distancing orders in place across the U.S. have added to the long list of low-level offenses that police are charged with enforcing as a routine part of their job. There are about 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States, with close to 800,000 police officers. To date most appear to be exercising judgment and restraint in taking action against those occupying public spaces during the current pandemic. But then, of course, there are the exceptions. I was a Boston police officer for 27 years before becoming an academic. My career on the force began with the large-scale unrest that accompanied Boston’s school desegregation and busing crisis of the 1970s and ended with the massive redeployment of police resources for the city’s hosting of the 2004 Democratic National Conve...

Why teen depression rates are rising faster for girls than boys

4Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Why teen depression rates are rising faster for girls than boys

We’re in the middle of a teen mental health crisis – and girls are at its epicenter. Since 2010, depression, self-harm and suicide rates have increased among teen boys. But rates of major depression among teen girls in the U.S. increased even more – from 12% in 2011 to 20% in 2017. In 2015, three times as many 10- to 14-year-old girls were admitted to the emergency room after deliberately harming themselves than in 2010. Meanwhile, the suicide rate for adolescent girls has doubled since 2007. Rates of depression started to tick up just as smartphones became popular, so digital media could be playing a role. The generation of teens born after 1995 – known as iGen or Gen Z – were the first to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. They’re also the first group of teens...