Study Shows How Medical Community Neglected African Americans With Covid
More than half of hospital readmissions within the 60 days following discharge were among nonwhite patients (55%), and the majority of post-discharge deaths were among white patients (21.5%).
Racism A Strong Factor In Black Women’s High Rate Of Premature Births, Study Finds
Black women are about 1.6 times as likely as whites to give birth more than three weeks before the due date. That statistic bears alarming and costly health consequences, as infants born prematurely are at higher risk for breathing, heart and brain abnormalities, among other complications.
Pfizer And BioNTech Approach Feds For Emergency Use Authorization For Vaccines For Kids
U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials are expected to begin considering the application and have scheduled a meeting for later this month.
Grandparents May Hold Key To Overcoming COVID Vaccine Hesitancy In Black Community
Black seniors who themselves are vaccinated could be the trusted messengers the community needs to get the Covid vaccination, said public health experts at a news briefing Sept. 21.
Full FDA Approval Of Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine Had Only A Modest Impact On Uptake
Despite hopes that full approval of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine would convince large numbers of vaccine-hesitant Americans to roll up their sleeves, a federal government analysis provided to CNN suggests approval was not a silver bullet.
‘I Am Here To Tell You It Is Not Over’
A Virginia family is trying to process how their 10-year-old daughter went from being perfectly healthy to dying in five days from Covid-19.
Vaccine Uptick In African Americans, But Access And Misinformation Still Confounds Community
Vaccination rates among African Americans by state continue to raise alarms. Multiple states, including Vermont, Utah, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Idaho, and Hawaii, report that just 1 percent of their African American population has received a Covid vaccine. Alaska, Iowa, Maine, and New Mexico, report just 2 percent of their Black population vaccinated.
D.C. at 45 percent, Mississippi at 38 percent, and South Carolina at 22 percent, represent the highest vaccines among African Americans.
At Her Father’s Side: Public Health Expert Finds Herself Facing Real Life Crisis
World Heart Day. Thometta Cozart, a professional advocate for health equity, got a strong dose of reality when her father had a stroke and then a seizure.
Wildfire Smoke Is Here To Stay. Here’s How To Clean The Air Inside Your...
Lab testing has clearly shown such do-it-yourself devices are safe, though they may heat up the room and produce more noise than a portable HEPA cleaner, according to the EPA.
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Additional Human Remains Believed To Be Slain College Student Wash Ashore...
Additional human remains believed to be of Sade Robinson, the 19-year-old college student who went missing earlier this month following a first date, have washed ashore on a Lake Michigan beach in Wisconsin.
