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MDOH partners with local organizations to vaccinate vulnerable groups Maryland Department of Health | Mar 11, 2021 Share this: Maryland Department of Health (MDH) Acting Secretary Dennis R. Schrader and Maryland National Guard Brigadier General Janeen Birckhead, who also serves as the head of Maryland’s Vaccine Equity Task Force, visited a vaccination site opened Wednesday to serve monitory and vulnerable populations in Gaithersburg and greater Montgomery County. Get the latest sta...

Brannon As of mid-February, the CDC says of those who have received the first dose of vaccine, nearly two-thirds were white, about 63%, and 6% were Black. Now the CDC only has demographics for about half of those whove gotten the vaccine so far. Did those statistics surprise you at all? LaVeist Not really. I mean, there are several challenges here. Really three challenges that that weve been facing. One is that there just isnt enough vaccine. So just having enough to meet the demand has been a ...

Tennessee congressman hosts discussion with COVID-19 experts WATCH: Congressman Cohen hosts discussion panel with COVID-19 experts - clipped version By WMC Action News 5 Staff | March 8, 2021 at 5:53 PM CST - Updated March 8 at 10:32 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) is speaking to COVID-19 experts in a live discussion panel tonight. The panel includes: Dr. Monica Webb Hooper, Deputy Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD...

     By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:      Section 1.  Policy.  Advancing gender equity and equality is a matter of human rights, justice, and fairness.  It is also a strategic imperative that reduces poverty and promotes economic growth, increases access to education, improves health outcomes, advances political stability, and fosters democracy.  The full participation of...

March 8, 2021 The St. Mary’s County Equity Task Force is pleased to announce the launch of the BreatheWell St. Mary’s initiative, a comprehensive air quality monitoring and health education initiative for St. Mary’s County. Through BreatheWell St. Mary’s outdoor air quality sensors will be installed across the county that will measure particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and other elements that may contribute to poor air quality and respiratory illnesses. Indoor air quality senso...

By Octavio N. Martinez, Jr. and Rudolph K. Metayer Just under 43,000 Texans have died from COVID-19. That is a staggering figure. Something else that is just as astonishing? According to a study by the Episcopal Health Foundation, racial and ethnic disparities were responsible for an additional 5,000 deaths from COVID-19 as of September 2020, accounting for 30% of all deaths at that time. It is obvious that our state’s ability to stay healthy is harmed by the inequitable distribution of lif...

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis will host a COVID-19 vaccine town hall on Monday with a slew of local and national health experts.  The event will last from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The congressmans office, in a news release, said the panel will be a "frank" discussion of vaccination efforts and the pandemic response.  The list of panelists includes: Monica Webb Hooper, Deputy Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institutes of Health; Jame...

“You have to talk very personally — you cannot make this about statistics,” Garcetti said. “And you certainly can’t say, ‘Hey, I’m with the government. I’m here to help.’ You have to say, ‘Look, I’m your neighbor. I’m a human being. Let me tell you my experience.’ ” .@MayorofLA Eric Garcetti on the impact of a vaccine distribution program: “if we have that capacity built up properly, by mid-summer all the adult population that wants to get a vaccine, will have a v...

Presented by Coalition for Affordable Prescription Drugs With help from Erin Banco. On Tap — NIH makes moves on Covid-19 therapy research. — Medicaid rebate change nested inside relief legislation. A message from Coalition for Affordable Prescription Drugs: The Trump Administration’s prescription drug “Rebate Rule” will raise seniors’ premiums by up to 25%, skyrocket government spending, and will not deliver the lower drug costs that patients need. It should be eliminated to protect...

THE CONVERSATION: Between Us, About Us, A New Campaign By Black Health Care Workers for Black People about the COVID-19 Vaccines W. Kamau Bell Joins Black Doctors, Nurses and Researchers to Dispel Misinformation and Provide Accessible Facts in this Video Series to be Featured on YouTube March 04, 2021 08:10 ET | Source: Kaiser Family Foundation Kaiser Family Foundation San Francisco, California, UNITED STATES San Francisco, CA, March 04, ...