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(PRESIDIO, Texas) — Jorge Figueroa was willing to drive eight hours round trip. He wasn’t going on vacation or to visit a relative. Instead, he was planning to get a lifesaving shot to protect him from COVID-19 — a shot that many Americans can now conveniently access at their neighborhood pharmacy. The 54-year-old father of four has been eager to get vaccinated because he has high blood pressure, which could increase his risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. But Figueroa lives in P...

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...

Three sessions at Mercantile Center in downtown Worcester.

‘Pharmacy deserts’ are new front in the race to vaccinate for COVID-19 Courtesy of Linda MolinarBy SOO RIN KIM, ERIN SCHUMAKER,  MARK NICHOLS, and EVAN SIMON, ABC News (PRESIDIO, Texas) — Jorge Figueroa was willing to drive eight hours round trip. He wasn’t going on vacation or to visit a relative. Instead, he was planning to get a lifesaving shot to protect him from COVID-19 — a shot that many Americans can now conveniently access at their neighborhood pharmacy. The 54-year-old fath...

In an interview with WHYY, Kamala Harris talked about Philly’s FEMA site and balancing the need to get shots into arms with the need to do it fairly.

The federal government is shipping 3.9 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine starting today. Those doses are all that the company has on hand,

White House to Send Masks to Communities Hit Hard by Pandemic HHS Office of Minority Health Holds First Meeting of COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to Take Action in Texas after Public Health Emergency FDA Approves Johnson & Johnson Vaccine for Emergency Use FDA Releases Guidance for Modifying COVID-19 Vaccines Courts Oral Arguments Unlikely to be Heard on Public Charge Rule Reports GAO Testimony Before Senate Budget Committee, Low-Income Workers: Mil...

These Black women are on the frontlines of the fight against Covid-19 They have administered Covid-19 vaccines on college campuses, provided testing at churches and spent long hours in labs developing an effective vaccine. Some have given up their regular jobs and personal free time to do this work. Black women have been at the helm of the nation’s fight against the pandemic since the coronavirus hit US soil a little over one year ago. For many of them, it’s personal. Black women doctors an...

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PLATTSBURGH — About 20% of eligible adults in the seven-county North Country region have received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Wouter Riets