How COVID-19 Is Impacting People of Color in Every State
By Charlotte LoBuono, Stacker News
On 12/19/20 at 8:30 AM EST
COVID-19 has disproportionately affected communities of color across the United States because of social inequalities and inequalities in the health care system that have existed for a long time.
Minorities are more likely than whites to lack health insurance and have less access to health care. And some people of color may be more distrustful of the health care system. People of color are also more likely than whites to have underlying health conditions such as hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, and obesity that predispose them to complications from COVID-19.
Courtesy Arindam Roy
Nearly every morning, Sarmistha Sen went for a run before her children, Neil, 12, and Ryan, 6, woke up. Like every part of Sarmistha’s routine, running served a purpose in her life. The solitude of running on her neighborhood hike and bike trail with playgrounds on one side and a creek on the other, helped Sarmistha recharge from the demands of her busy schedule. Related Story
As her brother Sumit Sen says, running was her release, which helped her be present, connect fully to others, and embrace her daily purpose.
When she finished her run, Sarmistha would come home, make breakfast for her boys and her husband Arindam Roy, and then start her work as a clinical research manager at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Getting to the root of why hair goes gray
Marlene Cimons, The Washington Post
Dec. 19, 2020
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Marco Kaltofen, 61, says he first started noticing white hairs at 11. His hair was completely white by the time he reached his 30s. White hair is part of my identity, and I am completely at peace with it, he says.photo for The Washington Post by Katrina Goldsaito.
Marco Kaltofen was 11 when he noticed his first white hairs. As his hair grew whiter, his middle-school friends started calling him the professor. By his mid-30s, it was completely white, as it had been for three of his grandparents. His parents went white in their 40s, so I had no chance of avoiding this, Kaltofen says.
Woman slain on campus of University of Alabama at Birmingham
Someone shot a woman in the parking lot at the University of Alabama.
Posted: Dec 18, 2020 6:18 PM
Posted By: Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Authorities say a student who was fatally shot in a parking lot at the University of Alabama at Birmingham apparently was killed during a meeting about selling headphones.
News outlets report that 20-year-old Destiny Danielle Washington of Trussville was shot outside Hill Student Center on Thursday night.
She was then driven in a private vehicle to Children’s of Alabama, the hospital where she was pronounced dead.