Quotes and Mentions - March 19, 2024
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There is additional coverage of new research co-authored by Brandyn Churchill, resource economics, finding that direct-to-consumer marketing of vaccines can help to achieve public health objectives. The study documents increased sales and uptake of the pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar 13 after the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended in 2014 that people aged 65 and over receive the vaccine.
Reporting on how the war in Ukraine has impacted academics in the country cites a forthcoming study co-authored by Ina Ganguli, economics, finding that more than 5% of Ukraine’s elite scientists have emigrated.
“In the context where immigrants have been consistently represented as a fundamental threat to the U.S., there are a huge amount of conspiracies theorizing around migrant centers and where people are being kept and are living."
Jesse Rhodes, political science and UMass Poll, comments in an article on the security required to protect shelters housing migrants in Massachusetts.