GCR Update

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are reviewing data involving the single-dose COVID-19 vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson and six cases of a rare and severe blood clot that affected women between the ages of 18 and 48. Deepta Bhattacharya, an associate professor of immunobiology at the University of Arizona, said in a statement released by the Pima County Health Department that the estimated risk of a blood clot from the J&J vaccine is about 1 in a million, which is a far lower risk than an unvaccinated person has of dying from COVID-19 if they become infected. University Communications assisted with this story.

Scholarship applications are available at the College of Medicine – Tucson and the College of Medicine – Phoenix for students who intend to pursue residency training in family medicine, general internal medicine, geriatric medicine, general pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, and now general surgery.

The University of Arizona has confirmed changes to its admissions processes for fall 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Kasey Urquidez, the vice president of enrollment management at UArizona, is interviewed. University Communications assisted with this story.

Ian Pepper, director of the WEST Center and a professor of environmental science at the University of Arizona, found both the U.K. and the Brazilian variant through wastewater-based epidemiology tests conducted at Agua Nueva water reclamation - one of two major facilities handling sewage from the Tucson metropolitan area.