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The Health Care System Earned Black Coloradans’ Mistrust
How historic racism and inequality in healthcare undermined efforts to tend to communities of color during COVID-19.Angela Ufheil •
Terrence Hughes was seven, maybe eight, years old when he fell out of a cherry tree near his home in Toledo, Ohio, around 1973. Hughes’ uncle rushed him to the emergency room, where X-rays revealed a severe wrist fracture. The doctor, who was white, told his young, Black patient, “This is gonna hurt.” He then roughly grabbed Hughes’ wrist and squeezed it, hard, to reset the bones. “I thought I was going to hit the ceiling,” Hughes says.
With hundreds of cars stranded, strangers are helping strangers dig their cars out
Good Samaritans help drivers after storm.
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DENVER â Now that the storm is over, the real fun begins for drivers who left their car behind during the blizzard. Itâs piled up pretty bad, Chevy Nielsen said.
Nielsen left work Sunday night, but he never made it home. Fortunately, a passerby took him to a nearby hotel to stay the night.
Monday morning, Nielsen s car could be found on a side road off I-70 surrounded by others stranded in the snow. At least Iâm not the only one, but I shouldnât have been out here, Nielsen said.
By THY VO and LUCY HAGGARDMarch 6, 2021 GMT
DENVER (AP) Maria McLain Cox deals in uncertainty.
The longtime hospital chaplain has been with patients through chemotherapy and new diagnoses. She comforts couples who have lost infants, the families of stroke victims and people who were rushed to the emergency room and didn’t survive.
There are no words McLain Cox can say to ward off difficulty, or make it pass more quickly. But she can offer her presence. She talks to the worried and grieving through what they’re feeling, or they might sit together silently. She might offer a hug. Some reach out to hold her hand as they pray. Sometimes it’s a Coke from the vending machine that forges a connection.
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UCHealth respiratory therapists help woman with COVID-19 lung damage
Stephanie Lopez, 33, thanks the pulmonology clinic for helping her get back to a normal life without oxygen tanks. Author: Liz Kotalik Updated: 9:11 AM MST February 28, 2021
THORNTON, Colo. Stephanie Lopez has taken the pandemic seriously from the beginning. Still, the 33-year-old was also confident that if she were to get the virus, she would easily overcome it.
“I’ve never smoked, I’m so young, I diet all the time, I eat really healthy foods, so I just didn’t really understand what was happening to me.”
Stephanie was shocked when she became so sick after her COVID-19 diagnosis in October.