I can’t believe it’s been seven weeks! As I dive deeper into my college experience, this place is starting to feel more and more like home. Although it seems like a ghost town some days, my familiarity at Chapel Hill … Read more

The United States consistently ranks as one of the least effective healthcare systems in the developed world. When almost every other developed nation has some form of a national healthcare system, one will logically question the reasons why the United … Read more

Today, it is common to hear the average American say they wish things would “go back to normal.” This expression is code for “before COVID-19.” However, life prior to the current pandemic was not as fabulous for those already battling … Read more

During the early months of 2020, a new virus called SARS-CoV-2 or the coronavirus began infecting individuals in China’s Wuhan region. The new virus quickly turned into a silent but deadly force that quickly swept across the globe and began … Read more

The number of COVID cases in the U.S. alone has well surpassed six million, and is still climbing daily. This is obviously a growing and dangerous pandemic that is rendering a lot of conversation for a cure. Some recent studies … Read more

Since December 2019, COVID-19 has ravaged across the globe, affecting the lives of millions. As of September 14, 2020, there have been over twenty-nine million cases of COVID-19 worldwide with deaths from this virus climbing every day (Okeke 2020). About … Read more

Since March 11, 2020, the start of the current pandemic, there have been more than twenty-seven million cases of COVID-19 in the world and almost 900,000 deaths. More than six million of these cases have been in the United States … Read more

By: Mary Catherine Ellington Do you feel that the current measures being taken for COVID-19 are effective and have demonstrated significant improvement within the United States and globally as well? If not, your theories could also be aligning with those … Read more

According to the CDC, the United States is more obese than ever before, hitting a new high of 42.4% obesity in adults (Hales et al. 2018). Curiously, not all populations are affected equally. To investigate the obesity epidemic on the … Read more

After what has been a tumultuous first few weeks, it seems the dust has finally settled and everyone is getting into the groove of college. Like usual, we began our classes with a daily check-in, which is something that I … Read more