To Vaccinate or Not?

A man in a red tank top, white surgical mask, and brown baseball hat stares into the distance as a gloved hand gives him a vaccination.

Researcher Caitlin Fields explores how people decide whether to get the Covid-19 vaccine. When the Covid-19 vaccine first became available, Caitlin Fields was puzzled. After a series of lockdowns, social distancing and masking, and hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid, she struggled to understand why there was so much hesitancy and debate about getting […]

Research Hero: Richard Novak, MD

Richard Novak, MD, started the first Covid-19 vaccine trial in Illinois

University of Illinois at Chicago Covid-19 is not the first pandemic go-around for Richard Novak, MD. For more than 30 years, he has worked closely with HIV-positive patients. Today, as head of infectious diseases at the University of Illinois at Chicago, he has been running several research studies trying to find a drug to treat […]