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San Diego County supervisors last week formally defined racism as a public health crisis, acknowledging for the first time that a broad and baked-in prejudice underpins virtually every aspect of public policy.
The unanimous declaration came days ahead of the national holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and after a majority of Democrats was elected to the county board.
Among other actions, the vote directed county officials to begin collecting data that will help them identify and respond to racial disparities in health, education, criminal justice and other staples of American society.
It was the latest advance in a two-steps-forward, one-step-back history of race-based discrimination that began even before the nation’s founding and was formally codified in the U.S. Constitution, which counted slaves as three-fifths of a person when calculating for congressional representation.
Why some San Diego County healthcare workers declined the vaccine
Available data suggests low refusal rates
Health experts in San Diego County cautioned that refusal data is often more complex than it appears.
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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) â In some pockets of the country, large numbers of healthcare workers have turned down the COVID-19 vaccine, raising concerns about the rollout and the prospect of vaccine hesitancy.
However, in San Diego County, the available data suggests low refusal rates among frontline healthcare workers, although in some cases healthcare providers are collecting their numbers in a way that make them difficult to assess.
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Nearly 600 people joined a virtual town hall Thursday with San Diego County supervisor Jim Desmond and health experts to ask questions about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
Kevin Brady, a Republican member of the US House of
Representatives, says he has tested positive for COVID-19.
Brady said his result came back positive shortly before he
was due to receive the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer
and BioNTech.
He said he received the first dose of the vaccine
administered in two doses 21 days apart on December 18.
The World Health Organisation (WHO), in December, gave
approval for the emergency use of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
“Tonite the Office of
House Physician informed me that I’ve tested positive for COVID-19 & am
quarantined. As recommended, I received a first dose of the Pfizer vaccine Dec.