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As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, health officials are urging everyone to get their COVID vaccine. Photo credit: pixabay

Do you know your news? July 27

Marisa Nelson July 26, 2021

1. According to NBC News, what percentage of people in the U.S. population has been vaccinated?a. 70%b. 60%c. 40%d. 35%2. Scientists are predicting that ____________ will become much more likely over the...

Weber State University nursing student Necia Wallenmeyer administers a COVID-19 vaccination to Lorna Ricks, Tuesday Mar. 16, in Ogden, Utah. (Brooklynn Kilgore/The Signpost)

Opinion: Lifting the mask mandate will be deadly

Breanna Hart March 22, 2021

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on our lives for a full year now. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs, their houses, their security, their loved ones and their lives. The CDC recommends people...

Dr. Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health for the Council on Foreign Relations, directs the Global Health Governance roundtable series. (Israel Campa / The Signpost)

The complicated issue of vaccine diplomacy

Adam Rubin February 17, 2021

The Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy hosted a Zoom-accessible event on Feb. 10. Dr. Yanzhong Huang, a leader in vaccine diplomacy and global health and the founder of Global Health Governance, explained...

Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson visits COVID -19 experimental vaccination sites throughout the state of Utah, including the Dee Event Center in Weber County.  (Nikki Dorber / The Signpost)

Lt. Gov. visits campus as vaccines roll out to Weber and Morgan counties

Caitlyn Nichols January 20, 2021

Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson visited the Weber-Morgan COVID-19 vaccination site in the Dee Events Center on the Weber State University campus on Jan. 20.The visit was part of Henderson’s tour of...

Do you know your news? Jan. 19

Do you know your news? Jan. 19

Marisa Nelson January 15, 2021

1. How many of the attendees of the Washington D.C. riots have been identified and placed on the FBI terrorist watch list? a. Thousands b. Dozens c. 300 d. None 2. What rare animal from...

Weber State is offering COVID-19 testing in Ballroom C of the Shepherd Union Building. (BriElle Harker / The Signpost) Photo credit: BriElle Harker

New course will arm students with COVID knowledge

Joshua Kamp November 11, 2020

The Department of Health Administrative Services at Weber State University is offering a new course next spring: “Immunology of COVID-19.” The course will be an interdisciplinary effort to...

Do you know your news?

Marisa Nelson July 20, 2020

1.) This past week, an anti-mask protest in Provo, Utah saw parents upset about Utah schools' mask mandate refusing to send their kids back to school. One woman did what to her mask before speaking?a....

Science Weekly: Fighting cancer with a 3-D vaccine

February 10, 2015

Imagine getting a shot that can help your body fight infectious diseases — and cancer. Researchers at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering have developed a  vaccine that...

Flu hits hard this winter, especially among children

January 15, 2015

Concern is rising about the flu epidemic that has claimed the lives of children across the United States. As of Jan. 3, 26 children have died from flu this season, which began in September, according...

Science Weekly: Ebola vaccine has successful clinical trial

November 29, 2014

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), co-developers, have created a vaccine that would help prevent the Ebola virus. It is currently in the experimental...

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