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The Virus, Vaccines and New Variants: Weighing the Threat of a Mutant COVID...
POST NEWS GROUP - “The more virus particles there are, the more chances that a single virus particle may be a little different than the rest of them,” said Shah. “One or more virus particles is all you...
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Closing the gap: Morehouse School of Medicine is shaping tomorrow’s leaders
ROLLING OUT - “We are exposing more African Americans in this space to create a pipeline for opportunities and to affect change in the minority population as it relates to access to drugs and health...
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Biden-Harris Administration Delivers Funds to Support Older Americans’ Health
With this funding for Older Americans Act nutrition programs, states will be able to continue home-delivered meals as well as “drive-through” or “grab-and-go” meals for older adults who typically would...
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Drew: Pause Lifted on Johnson & Johnson Vaccine, Now What?
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES - The agency acted quickly after a vote by the CDC’s ACIP recommended lifting the pause. “Above all else, health and safety are at the forefront of our decisions,” said CDC...
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Big Freedia, Lynn Whitfield, join Planned Parenthood’s ‘Be Seen’ Campaign...
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD - Planned Parenthood joins Atlanta-based, Emmy-winning actor Lynn Whitfield and musicians Big Freedia, Rebecca Black, and Paulina Rubio to launch a campaign for Black and Latinx...
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The importance of getting vaccinated
AFRO - We must be clear about what will and will not work in bringing this pandemic to a close. The virus will not disappear on its own. Misplaced narratives about individualism and taking personal...
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California to Receive $3.8 Billion in Federal Cash to Help Childcare Providers
POST NEWS GROUP - On April 15, the Biden Administration announced the release of $39 billion in direct funding allocated for childcare providers in the American Rescue Plan, which was signed into law...
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America’s Unhealthiest, Air Polluted Cities, Put Many at Risk
HE ORLANDO ADVOCATE - That statistic is predictably worse for blacks, who are 61% more likely than whites to live in an area where the air is unacceptably polluted, and three times more likely to live...
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Iowa prison inmates sickened after given improper dose of COVID-19 vaccine
ROLLING OUT - According to The New York Times, on April 20, nurses inadvertently administered six times the recommended dosage of the vaccine to at least 77 inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary in...
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Nation’s First Bill to Extend Victim Services to Survivors of Police Brutality
POST NEWS GROUP - Police reports and opinion can also prevent families of homicide victims from obtaining compensation, without any recourse or due process. Families in shock at a violent loss then...
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Resources: Get Cancer Checkups
PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS - “Ernesta pushed one lady to get tested at one of the mobile [units], they were there to catch it at Stage 3 and she’s alive today,” she said. “The lady had no clue. The...
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What women should know about the COVID-19 vaccine and its side effects
ROLLING OUT - Research has thus far demonstrated that younger women tend to have the most severe side effects upon receiving their coronavirus vaccines. This has been shown for the Pfizer, Moderna, and...
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Black Churches in IE Leading Black Community to Higher COVID-19 Vaccination...
BLACK VOICE NEWS - Research shows there are several barriers to vaccination that impact Black communities beyond the issue of hesitancy. Blacks, more than others, have limited access to the internet,...
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Part of the Vaccine “Wait and See” Crowd? This is for you.
THE ORLANDO ADVOCATE - In 1932, the Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study— probably the most egregious example of the “physician do no...
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Why Skin Issues in Patients of Color are Neglected, Mistreated
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD - Few physicians receive training for treating skin of color. The post Why Skin Issues in Patients of Color are Neglected, Mistreated first appeared on BlackPressUSA.
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Dr. Esther Obeng: At home in her lab at St. Jude
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Apart from the science and medicine, there’s another reason Esther Obeng, M.D., Ph.D., has found a home at St. Jude. After arriving, she learned about the research hospital’s history as...
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White House COVID-19 Response Team and the Black Press
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “As it gets spread from person to person, from family to family, and friend to friend, it’s so important for the Black Press to tell the story of what is happening on the ground....
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Family of Black Doctors has Social Media Buzzing
NNPA NEWSWIRE - “Our dad, Dr. Herbert Oye, is a Nigerian immigrant. Upon moving to the United States, he attended medical school and has worked tirelessly to build his own Vascular Surgery practice,”...
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PRESS ROOM: NAACP Launches ‘COVID. KNOW MORE,’ An Innovative, Timely New...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The NAACP has commissioned proprietary research, which will be featured and updated bi-monthly, taking a consistent pulse of Black America’s status and progress as we collectively...
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COVID-19 Vaccines and Pregnancy: What Expecting Moms Need to Know
THE ORLANDO ADVOCATE - Prior to the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that Black women were three times more likely than Hispanic women and 2.5 times more likely than...
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