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Racism in healthcare: Is building trust amid COVID-19 vaccine rollout attainable for Black Charlottesville? Tuesday, December 15, 2020, at 9:41 PM
For Mareea Wilson, a 92-year-old Black woman living in Albemarle County, she said she believes that things have changed. And despite the historical context of Black people being used as experiments, she will be taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Sheleigha Early said she has reservations about the COVID-19 vaccine as it becomes available to the general public for a few reasons, including the historical context of the Black community being used as experiments.Â
Officials address racial health disparities amid COVID-19 pandemic
While Virginia ranks well in terms of social and economic outcomes, the commonwealth struggles with access to health care
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ROANOKE, Va – 2020 has been a year of conversations about equity and racial healing in the United States.
As the year comes to a close and the nation prepares for COVID-19 vaccine distribution, health officials are shifting their efforts to meet the needs of historically underserved populations.
Health disparities among Hispanic and African American populations long predate the coronavirus pandemic. But with thousands of new infections nationwide each day, the increasing number of sick people only shines a brighter spotlight on systemic racial issues in health care.
Trump s COVID Testing Czar Admonishes GOP Congressman-Elect for Phony Pandemic Comment
On 12/16/20 at 12:35 PM EST
Admiral Brett Giroir, the Trump administration s coronavirus testing czar, reacted to a clip of GOP Representative-elect Bob Good calling the coronavirus outbreak a phony pandemic, saying he would be happy to supply him technical assistance to better understand the severity of the health crisis. Of course it s a pandemic. There s a definition of a pandemic and that is a virus that is raging across the world, and this clearly is doing that, Giroir told CNN s John Berman on Wednesday morning. We have hundreds of thousands of dead Americans, we ll have millions of people around the world. This is not phony, this is not fake. It is serious.
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