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Mike Pence received his COVID-19 vaccine on Friday before commenting on its importance along with U.S. health officials.
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Yeah. Are any of you immuno compromised or on immuno suppressant? Right. Good to go. Yeah, that s really interesting. Sure. Pretty great job, please. Today you ll be getting a shot record proving that you receive the vaccine from us today. And this vaccine is a tudo Siri s. So that means you want to come back in 21 days for the second one again, with any vaccine, you could have a pretty sore arm at the injection site. Maybe some readiness. But if anything else happens, make sure contact a medical provider or go seek medical care bridge. Thank you. Thanks. Well, good morning. And thank you all for being here. I want to thank my wonderful wife, our second lady, Karen Pence, the Surgeon General, Dr Tony Fauci and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force who
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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams encouraged all patients to take the vaccine, and he urged local officials to ensure doses are distributed in an equitable manner.
A group of five health care workers at the GW Hospital became the first to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in D.C. Monday.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams joined Mayor Muriel Bowser and medical staff at GW Hospital to present the first novel coronavirus vaccinations in the District. Barbara Neiswander, a nursing supervisor at the hospital, was the first to receive a vaccine, and she was followed by Raymond Pla, an anesthesiology specialist and assistant professor of anesthesiology, who said he hopes he can encourage his Black patients to trust in the vaccine.
Biden makes tackling racial, ethnic inequities during coronavirus pandemic a priority
Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post
Dec. 15, 2020
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Sandy Brown, 60, of Flint, Mich., visits the bodies of her husband, Freddie Brown Jr., 59, and her son, Freddie Brown III, 20, both victims of covid-19, at Dodds-Dumanois Funeral Home in Flint on April 10.Photo by Brittany Greeson for The Washington Post.
Long before Yale researcher Marcella Nunez-Smith began to study racial inequities in health care, she lived them.
She grew up on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a place, she said, where people too often die too young from preventable conditions.
Ngozi Alia | 12/11/2020, 6 a.m. Dr. Melvin Ego-Osuala (L) & Dr. Risha Irvin (R) Courtesy Photo
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that African Americans are disproportionately impacted and twice as likely to die from the coronavirus. In Maryland, over sixty percent of residents are Black in Baltimore and Prince Georgeâs County, and Prince Georgeâs County leads Maryland with the most known COVID-19 cases.
There has been a call for action to support minority groups that are heavily impacted by the coronavirus on local and national levels.
Earlier in the year, the COVID-19 Consortium submitted a proposal to Governor Larry Hogan addressing the health inequalities of COVID-19 in African American and Hispanic communities in Maryland. The COVID-19 Consortium is comprised six different organizations, including: Westat Incorporation; National Medical Association; National Hispanic Medical Association; National Association of Comm