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Dr. Susan Moore recorded a video documenting insufficient treatment she received while suffering from COVID-19. Author: Sandra Chapman Updated: 7:38 PM EST January 8, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS The treatment of an Indiana doctor who died from COVID-19 is prompting both an external hospital review and proposed changes in state law.
13 Investigates has details about the national experts chosen to examine the care of Dr. Susan Moore and a new proposal that could mandate bias training for health care workers statewide.
Two distinguished national experts will lead an external six-member panel to review whether an Indianapolis doctor suffering from COVID-19 failed to get proper treatment as a result of racial bias.
Jan 8, 2021 / 06:48 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Although Indiana on Friday reached another phase of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution, a large percentage of the population still don’t feel comfortable getting the shot.
Indiana State Department of Health on Friday reported 69 more Hoosier deaths from the coronavirus, for a total of 8,251. A total of 552,594 Hoosiers have tested positive for COVID-19.
The
Indiana Minority Health Coalition has partnered with an organization to expand its COVID-19 initiative. The
Burmese American Community Institute (BACI) already started the process of translating information to better reach and educate the community it serves.
“Is it safe? What is a vaccine? All that stuff,” said Lian Sang, program director of the institute.
Minority Health Coalition Addresses COVID-19 Vaccine
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Indiana health officials joined a webinar Tuesday to discuss COVID-19 vaccination advances and efforts to equitably vaccinate Hoosiers.
The Indiana Minority Health Coalition hosted the event to highlight the importance of the vaccine and to dispel myths about it. U.S. Surgeon General and former Indiana Health Commissioner Jerome Adams said COVID-19 laid bare health inequities.
“The diseases that impact all of us,” Adams said, “almost always disproportionately impact people of color.”
Two COVID-19 vaccinations have been approved this month. Marion County Public Health Department Director Virginia Caine said the vaccines use new messenger RNA science that teaches cells to make a protein.