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As a midwife, Tania McCracken spends hours with pregnant women and their families inside their homes, helping deliver newborns. The essential hands-on work puts McCracken and other California midwives at risk of COVID-19.
“There’s a lot of breathing involved,” she said, noting that scientists have found that labor, like singing, may spread the virus through the air.
But McCracken, who works in homes around Redlands in San Bernardino County, and many other state-licensed midwives have not yet been able to get the COVID-19 vaccine even though health workers have been prioritized to receive the shots before all others.
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The UK is now at the worst point of pandemic, expert warns, as vaccination plans are scaled up
From CNN s Nina Avramova, Florence Davey-Attlee and Sarah Dean
Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer for England, attends a news conference at 10 Downing Street in London, on January 5. Hannah McKay/WPA Pool/Getty Images
The United Kingdom is now at the deadliest point of the coronavirus pandemic, with numbers higher now than during last year s peak, England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said on Monday.
“We’ve got to be very clear that we’re now at the worst point of this epidemic for the UK, in the future we will have the vaccine, but the numbers at the moment are higher than they were in the previous peak by some distance,” Whitty told the BBC.
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Mayor Eric Garcetti and county Supervisor Holly Mitchell today joined two city councilmen who represent the South Los Angeles area to urge constituents distrustful of the COVID-19 vaccine to get inoculated.
Mitchell said that while the Black community has reason to be distrustful of health care systems and medical professionals in the U.S. citing the 1932 Tuskegee Experiment and the use of Henrietta Lacks cells without her consent or that of her family she told people it was safe to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I don t want people to use those past horrific experiences where we were taken advantage of and abused as a reason to not step up in this moment in history where we are experiencing unprecedented public health crisis, Mitchell said.
Leaders in South L.A. say they need to fight vaccine distrust in communities of color
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The COVID-19 vaccine is the light at the end of the tunnel for this pandemic. But there are many people who don t trust the vaccine.
In a show of unity, local community leaders are committing to building trust with the people in South Los Angeles.
Like so many, behavior therapist Elvis DeJesus was weary of the new COVID-19 vaccines. I was a little bit hesitant, he said.
But since he works with special needs students, he came to St. John s Well Child and Family Center to get his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.