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Racial bias in health care more evident during COVID-19 pandemic
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Miriam Cepeda watched helplessly as her grandfather, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who was sick with COVID-19, resisted pleas last March to go to the hospital.
“He told us he had sad memories of hospitals back home and he just didn’t trust the medical system,” said Cepeda, 19, whose grandfather later passed away from COVID. “For a lot of minority communities, going to the doctor isn’t our first choice or solution.”
Rick Lange, MD: COVID-19 transmission in schools.
Elizabeth: Spontaneous cardiac activity after withdrawing life support.
Rick: And allergic reactions after the first dose of the Moderna vaccine.
Elizabeth: That s what we re talking about this week on TT HealthWatch, your weekly look at the medical headlines from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso. I m Elizabeth Tracey, a Baltimore-based medical journalist.
Rick: And I m Rick Lange, president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, where I m also dean of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine.
Elizabeth: Rick, why don t we turn right to
MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report taking a look at the potential for allergic reactions following vaccination? I think this is a top-of-mind issue for many.
City and medical officials took the majority of Wednesday’s COVID-19 news conference to address the continued success of local vaccination efforts through both area providers and the city’s walk-in clinic at the Amarillo Civic Center Complex.
According to previous Globe-News reports, Amarillo was recently named the nation’s leader in COVID-19 vaccinations by COVID Act Now, vaccinating nearly 30,000 individuals in the Phase 1A and 1B categories. These groups consist of frontline healthcare workers, residents of long-term care facilities, community members 65 and older, and people 18 and older who have at least one chronic medical condition that puts them at increased risk for severe illness if they contract COVID-19.