SACRAMENTO, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced the first known case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus in the nation’s most populated state, following the first reported U.S. case in Colorado. Newsom said he had just learned of the finding in a Southern California case Wednesday. He announced it during an online conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious-disease expert. Fauci said the finding is not surprising and that it was to be expected. Newsom did not provide any other details about the person who was
Francine Jefferson, about her sister-in-law, Clara A. Kincaid
I am convinced that had she been a white woman they would have put her in the hospital. I believe that with everything in me.
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“COVID-19 is a terrible illness that unpredictably impacts each person differently, including some who can rapidly decline in a matter of hours,” the spokeswoman said via e-mail. The health system’s providers all follow a strict protocol for assessing, treating and educating patients about the symptoms of COVID-19 and how to seek follow-up care immediately if their condition worsens, according to the e-mailed statement.
While no one incident points to outright discrimination in Kincaids’ experience with the clinic, health advocates who study healthcare disparities have pointed to fissures in trust among Black patients and medical care professionals as a contributor to inequity in medical treatment. Historical injustices, such as the forced sterilization of Black women and th
Canton police continue search for man connected to triple homicide Gabriela Szymanowska, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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Canton police are still searching for a man in connection to the deaths of a pregnant woman and her brother during a home invasion.
Chief Otha Brown said his department is now working with the Madison County Sheriff s Office on the investigation.
Brown said Maudilia Martina Ramirez Garcia, 19, was found dead inside the house lying on a bed. The woman, who was eight months pregnant, had been shot in the face. Her brother, Faustino Ramirez Garcia, 20, was found on the floor in the house. Brown said Garcia had been shot in the back of the head.
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