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Jamel Hill and his family are praying as the wait for Match Day announcement. Fourth year medical students are getting ready to graduate and start their residencies in July. It’s been a long journey—and especially challenging for many Black students. In a fully decorated community hall in Indianapolis, Jamel Hill and about a dozen relatives are gathering. On the side there is a laptop with a group Zoom video call that has the rest of the extended family—great grandparents and all. Hill i...

Listen • 3:59 Lloyd Lucky Hall (right) died of Covid-19 in March 2020 at age 69. He leaves behind a family of children and grandchildren. Sirrea Whittaker describes her dad as the life of the party, an outspoken Black man with a love for his Omega Psi Phi fraternity and a sprawling network of friends. “And it sometimes was annoying, because like, you can go to the grocery store and you leave two hours later because he finds someone he knew,” says the 36-year-old workin...

Many U.S. doctors have received their COVID-19 vaccines, but nearly a third are foreign-born with family in countries facing no access to it — a disparity that troubles many as they fight the virus.

Listen • 4:21 The Butterball poultry processing plant in Carthage, Missouri is one of several major plants that employ many Latinx immigrants. Through grainy video on a recent Facebook live event, Missouri health director Dr. Randall Williams explained who was currently eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine. A moment later, an interpreter from the Mexican consulate in Kansas City provided a translation. The live stream was the consulate’s idea. Consul Alfonso Navarro Bernach...

New Program Helps People With Diabetes Eat Healthy Article origination WFYI-FM FARAH YOUSRY - Side Effects Public Media Standing in her kitchen, Therese Richardson is making her favorite recipe. “The honey dijon roasted pork tenderloin. I like that one,” the 50-year-old Indianapolis woman says. Richardson has Type 2 diabetes, meaning that cells in her body are resistant to insulin, causing her blood sugar levels to rise. Eating vegetables and other healthy food helps her avoid serious compl...

Article origination WFYI-FM Farah Yousry/Side Effects Public Media Farah Yousry - Side Effects Public Media Economic problems caused by COVID-19 hit diabetics especially hard. The American Diabetes Association says about a quarter of people with the disease are tapping savings, loans or stimulus checks to buy insulin. And some are taking big risks to get the life-saving drug. It’s been over six months since Cody Wessel lost his retail job due to the pandemic. He says he’s been terrified “...

COVID-19 And Diabetes Can Be A Dangerous Mix Article origination WFYI-FM Farah Yousry/Side Effects Public Media FARAH YOUSRY - Side Effects Public Media Agatha Walston leads a busy life. She’s a nurse in southern Indiana and a single mother of two young kids. She’s kept control of her type 1 diabetes for over 28 years — partly through a healthy lifestyle. “I would rather snack on veggies than trash food,” the Clarksville woman says. But when the pandemic hit, she feared that the contr...