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US health systems must fund better outreach and education in communities of color, experts say.
In healthcare deserts, more mobile clinics could help residents get vaccines.
Since COVID-19 arrived in the US a year ago, the country s Black and Latino citizens have been hit hardest: their outsized representation as essential workers, along with other systemic factors, have left their communities more than two to three times more vulnerable to severe disease and death from the virus, overall.
Now, as relief begins trickling out to Americans in the form of vaccines, the same communities appear to be at a disadvantage, once again.
Comments by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
I think it is time for us to republish an article we published back in 2014 by Dr. David Stewart, who so eloquently articulated the limitations of the scientific method, and the short-comings of the medical paradigm.
Today here in 2021, we are witnessing an unparalleled phenomenon in medicine where religious beliefs are passed off as “science,” while indoctrination of ideas is actually the goal of the Globalist medical tyranny programs.
Most of the public is falling for this indoctrination propaganda passed off as “science,” so Dr. Stewart’s words are more needed today than perhaps ever before.
Scalise’s claim that unauthorized immigrants are getting priority for vaccination misses the point
During a Feb. 2 interview on Fox News, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) claimed President Joe Biden was allowing unauthorized immigrants to move ahead of American citizens to get their covid-19 vaccines.
This story was produced in partnership with PolitiFact. It can be republished for free. Now [Biden s] saying that people who came here illegally can jump ahead of other Americans who have been waiting to get the vaccine, said Scalise, who is also the No. 2 Republican leader in the House.
Lauren Fine, a spokesperson for Scalise, said the representative was referring to a Feb. 1 statement from the Department of Homeland Security, which said the agency encourages all individuals, regardless of immigration status, to receive the COVID-19 vaccine once eligible under local distribution guidelines.
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Black and brown Americans are receiving fewer coronavirus shots, despite dying at higher rates - but there are ways to fix the inequity
Black and brown Americans are receiving fewer coronavirus shots, despite dying at higher rates - but there are ways to fix the inequity
Hilary Brueck,Shelby Livingston,Allana AkhtarFeb 10, 2021, 21:51 IST
A group of people show off their coronavirus vaccine record cards on February 6, 2021.Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images
Black and brown Americans are receiving fewer COVID-19
vaccine jabs, despite dying at higher rates.
US health systems must fund better outreach and education in communities of color, experts say.