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'Loving a Challenge' Cases in Iowa City The Daily Iowan WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2020 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ INSIDE BY LILLIAN POULSEN day. ees who have been vaccinated [email protected] “It's an honor to have been so far have said they’re grate- part of this trial,” Winokur ful and excited to see the light 3 For Patricia Winokur, re- told reporters hours after be- at the end of a pandemic that VACCINE ceiving one of the first doses ing one of 178 UIHC staffers has exhausted hospitals and in the country of the vaccine inoculated on Monday. “This their employees. was an emotional experience. one's in the history books UIHC Chief Executive Offi- She spent months as the now. I don't think there's any- cer Suresh Gunasekaran told ARRIVES lead coronavirus vaccine re- thing that we're going to see reporters Monday that the searcher for the University going into the history books hospital expects to give out Health care workers at University of of Iowa Hospitals and Clin- in medicine that's going to about 1,000 doses by the end ics’ vaccine trial before being surpass this for quite some of the week and intends to Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, long on inoculated herself with the time.” vaccinate the hospitals nearly Hassles heading home the front lines facing COVID-19, were Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine on UIHC employees were the 17,000 employees within the As winter break approaches, many Monday, after it was approved first in the state to receive the next few months. University of Iowa students are either the first in line to receive doses of the for emergency use by the Food Pfizer BioNtech coronavirus UIHC Chief Pharmacy Of- in the process of or planning to make vaccine to prevent the disease. and Drug Administration Fri- vaccine on Monday. Employ- their journeys home. For international SEE VACCINE, 4 students, this journey is sprinkled with barriers including travel restrictions, inflated airfare, and government-man- dated quarantining at regulated centers Attorney Leon Spies amid their return. has taken on some 6 of the toughest 'Loving a challenge' cases in Iowa City. BY ALEXANDRA SKORES [email protected] Never afraid to face any obstacle, Iowa City At- torney Leon Spies has lived a storied career on the A bipartisan rep for a bi- edge of his courtroom seat as a criminal defense partisan district attorney. Growing up in a family that struggled to “I have that reputation for loving a challenge,” make ends meet, Dave Loebsack never Spies said. thought Congress was in his future. His Seventy-year-old Spies has enjoyed high-stakes family benefited from federal programs courtroom drama for over 40 years and now, and that gave him opportunities to succeed. continues to take on risky cases, though many of In Congress, Loebsack tried to extend his peers have retired. He’s defended individuals those same benefits to others, while fo- charged with serious crimes, from assault all the cusing on bipartisan solutions to issues way to a convicted meth kingpin charged with facing his district. murder. Spies said the emotional toll of the court- room has helped him develop an understanding for the motives and values of his clients to help them through it. 6 “I can probably count on one hand the number of clients that I haven’t felt genuine affection for,” Spies said. “They come to me at the worst times in their life and trust me with their faith.” Now, Spies is tasked with defending a client whose alleged crime is one that captured the entire Iowa City and University of Iowa community in the spring of 2019 — Roy C. Browning. On March 16, 2021 at 9 a.m. at the Johnson Coun- ty Courthouse, Spies is set to defend Browning, an Iowa City husband accused of murdering his wife 80 Hours: Ladies Ty- Kate Heston/The Daily Iowan pographic Union hand — JoEllen Browning, a UI budget official. The trial has been rescheduled on two separate occasions Leon Spies, a criminal defense attorney in Iowa City, poses for a portrait in his office. Spies attended the University of Iowa for presses calendar because of the coronavirus pandemic. both his undergraduate degree and for law school. Spies will defend Roy Browning in a March trial where the court will hear Graduate students in the Ladies Ty- SEE SPIES, 2 charges that Browning killed his wife, a UI employee. pographic Union spent hundreds of hours piecing together a calendar that represents students’ artistic cre- ativity. The hand pressed calendar is available online for the first time this year, and physical copies sold out in UI prepares just hours. Building trust in a 10 for uncertain COVID-19 vaccine spring Public health leaders must overcome a history of cultural trauma that sows mistrust in a vaccine. As the spring semester approaches, students and faculty are taking Harreld to leave DEI structure up to next lessons from the fall into president upcoming term. Ahead of his retirement, University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld said he would leave restructuring the UI's head BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT diversity position, which campus lead- [email protected] ers have said should be a member of the president's cabinet, up to the next head Students and professors are preparing Hawkeye. for a spring semester with some questions still unanswered. The UI announced winter break would 12 be extended by a week and there would be no spring break in 2021 in a campus-wide update on Nov. 2. According to the update, classrooms will look similar to the fall se- mester, with classes with more than 50 students moved online. After a spike in COVID-19 cases in Sep- tember, a semester which started as pri- marily in person ended with more than Fall season preps Hawks three-quarters of classes online ahead for pro futures an all-virtual period post-Thanksgiving Hannah Kinson/The Daily Iowan break. For Iowa men’s golfers Charles Jahn President & CEO at MYEP Roger Lusala poses for a portrait on Monday in his office at MYEP. Lusala is participating in a two-year Faculty, students, and administrators and Alex Schaake, a canceled Big Ten research study at UIHC that is testing a vaccine for COVID-19. are taking lessons from an unprecedented fall golf season gave them a chance to fall for a spring semester which UI Presi- compete as individuals away from their BY SARAH WATSON er-BioNtech vaccine trial, the local site being at the dent Bruce Harreld says will look largely the teammates and learn what it’s like to [email protected] University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, he knew same in terms of online classes. be professional golfers. Both Jahn and that the 40,000-plus person study needed people who In a Dec. 11 interview with The Daily Schaake will turn pro after their time Some of Roger Lusala’s close friends and family — looked like him to be most accurate. As a Black com- Iowan, Harreld said the UI is looking to in Iowa City, and will likely spend some even his kids — raised eyebrows when he told them munity leader, he could provide testimony to a group new asymptomatic testing options for stu- time traveling around the country at the this summer he’d take part in a COVID-19 vaccine trial. of people that has historically been mistrustful of med- dents. But concrete plans for students re- start of their careers. The Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine, approved last week icine — and has good reason to be. turning to campus are still being decided and delivered to frontline health care workers Mon- “A vaccine would help everybody, and especially, I — one option included bringing students day, is 95 percent effective in preventing the deadly wanted to do it for the Black community so I can testi- back to campus in phases. disease, but Lusala didn’t know that this fall when he fy to let them know that I was part of that,” said Lusala, “I suggested earlier this week to some received his two doses. who came to the U.S. in 1992 from the Democratic Re- people from the [Critical Incident Man- He pointed to the vaccine's rigorous examination public of Congo. “So, nobody has to be afraid.” agement Team] in a conversation that Tune in for LIVE updates process, and Pfizer's refusal of federal funding in early Lusala, CEO of MYEP, an Iowa City-based disabili- maybe we should phase our students com- Watch for campus and city research stages, as why he trusted the trial. ty-services agency, was part of a blinded study, mean- ing back so we don’t have a big crush,” he news, weather, and Hawkeye "When you get a prescription, no one ever goes to ing he won’t know until the vaccine is available to the said. “Maybe a quarter over or maybe over sports coverage every day at the lab and crushes the medication and studies it. You public whether he received the placebo or the actual a couple of weeks at a time, to relieve some dailyiowan.com. trust your doctor," he said. "You have so many scien- vaccine. of that pressure.” tific professionals studying this. So, we have to trust “I took it, and I haven’t changed,” he said. “I haven’t Harreld said he didn’t want to put “arti- the science." had any side effects. I hope I got the vaccine, but if I ficial time pressures” on the CIMT by set- When Lusala’s doctor contacted him about the Pfiz- didn’t, I will be first in line to get one.” ting a timeline for a decision.
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