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As of Monday, Jan. 11, D.C. residents over 65 are now eligible to reserve a COVID-19 vaccine appointment anywhere in the city. D.C.’s health department aimed to make the process as convenient as possible, setting up sites for vaccinations in every quadrant so seniors wouldn’t have to travel too far from home. But with just 6,700 appointments initially released, spots filled up within hours and some traveled across the District to get vaccinated.
Registration websites have crashed. Endless waits on phone lines have frustrated people seeking appointments or simple information. And some private health care centers have been unable to work through bureaucracies to get doses to the right people, at times wasting opened vaccines or giving them to people far down the priority list. In Florida, older residents camped on lawn chairs outside centers waiting for their shots.
State health department officials say they are happy to have the Guard’s ability to put up tents in 15 minutes and turn to a bevy of skilled personnel to quickly scale up and change direction when steps like registration are bogged down.
Why Local Leaders Are Declaring Racism A Public Health Crisis
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The COVID-19 pandemic is shining a spotlight on the current and historical racial disproportionality of health outcomes in the U.S. The unequal impact of the novel coronavirus on Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) reminds us of the need for robust public health responses and infrastructure to address our most pressing public health crises.
A public health crisis is something that impedes individuals and communities from being healthy. Historically, opioids, chronic disease, and gun violence have been named as public health crises because each of these hurt and/or kill people and limits their ability to live well and thrive. Behind many of these crises are systems and system-driven conditions such as poverty, inequitable access to housing, underemployment/unemployment, and more.
What prison food in the US really looks like, and why some inmates refuse to eat it Joey Hadden Jake Angeli is a far-right Arizona conspiracy theorist known as the Q Shaman, and he only eats organic food, according to his mother. The shirtless man in a fur hat who stormed the Capitol on January 6, Jake Angeli, is in federal custody, and he refuses to eat in detention because he is on an extremely restrictive diet. He gets very sick if he doesn t eat organic food, his mother, Martha Chansley, said. He needs to eat. David Gonzales, US Marshal for the District of Arizona,told ABC15 that Angeli will receive food in line with a shaman s strict organic diet.