Georgia Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock were sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, following the inauguration of the Biden administration. Ossoff and Warnock defeated former Senators
It s particularly important that people who are most vulnerable, including Black Americans, get the
vaccine. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black Americans are dying at nearly three times the rate of white, non-Hispanic people and being hospitalized at nearly four times the rate.
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But getting the vaccine first requires the Black community to trust that it s safe and effective, Fauci and other speakers said.
Black adults have shown more hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccines than white or Hispanic people. Polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation in early December found that about 35% of Black people said they probably or definitely wouldn t get a COVID-19 shot, compared with about a quarter of people who identified as Hispanic or as white.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted Monday that church services by mid-fall should resemble pre-coronavirus worship.
That projection depends on at least 70% to 85% of the population getting vaccinated.
Churches have been the sites of super-spreader events, since the virus spreads easily indoors when people are speaking loudly or singing in close quarters.
Dr. Anthony Fauci predicts church services with hugging, praising, and music-making will be able to resume safely in mid-fall if the US vaccinates people appropriately, effectively, and efficiently.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, made the projection Monday during the Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Conclave, an online convening of more than 100 Black clergy, leading public-health officials, and corporate and scientific leaders who are working to boost COVID-19 testing and other resources in th
Rep. Omar, the first Somali-American Member of Congress, the first woman of color to represent Minnesota, and one of the first two Muslim-American women elected to Congress. Photo, Official Website AGENDA: Defund and dismantle the police. She wants to help dismantle our Republic as we know it and was one of the first to call for Impeachment
The same people who allowed Black lives matter tear up National Monuments, storm Capitols in the cities, destroy private and public property with their filth and trash and kill innocent people and murder officers, have declared a war on our Democracy as we know it.