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Tuscaloosa: Alabama football has developed a reputation for drawing big crowds to its A-Day spring football game, but even at limited capacity, the 2021 game earned a distinction. Saturday’s attendance of 47,218 is the highest at any U.S. sporting event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Yahoo! Sports. Capacity at Bryant-Denny Stadium was capped at 50%, or a little more than 50,000 fans. Alabama, which traditionally offers free admission to the event, charged $5 for tickets this year so it could control the number of people admitted and allow attendees to socially distance. It came within a few thousand tickets of selling out available seating. According to Yahoo, Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, is the lone large stadium allowing full-capacity crowds. The Texas Rangers drew 38,238 for opening day. Alabama drew an overflow crowd of 92,138 to its 2007 spring game, Nick Saban’s first at UA, and has had atten
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Year after year, it s the same story: the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is rising, and pregnant women of color are dying at disproportionate rates. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association unveiled a national strategy on Tuesday that aims to halve racial disparities in maternal care through a combination of data collection, scaling existing local initiatives and lobbying for state and federal policy changes. Your health shouldn t depend on the color of your skin or the neighborhood you live in. That s just unacceptable, unconscionable, and we can have an impact where we can change the trajectory of racial disparities, said Kim Keck, president of the not-for-profit association, which represents the 35 Blues plans across the nation.
4/16/2021, 6 a.m. A Johns Hopkins community healthcare worker; Dr. Katie OâConor, director, John Hopkins Commu- nity Mobile Vaccination Clinics; and Maryland Department of Health Secretary Dennis R. Schrader. Courtesy Photos/Maryland Department of Health
Baltimoreâ On Tuesday, April 13, 2021, Maryland Department of Health (MDH) Secretary Dennis R. Schrader visited a Johns Hopkins Medicine- supported mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic set up at Park View at Ashland Terrace, a senior apartment building in a priority East Baltimore ZIP code, 21205.
The mobile clinic is a collaboration between MDH; Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response; the Baltimore City Health Department; and other healthcare entities. The clinic is expanding access to COVID-19 vaccinations for Baltimoreâs most vulnerable populations, including seniors and individuals with disabilities in priority ZIP codes and underserved areas
After years of shifting leadership, San Antonio Metro Health hires new permanent director
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Claude Jacob has been hired as the new director of the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. He will start July 6./
San Antonio officials named a new permanent director of the Metropolitan Health District on Friday, after two years of leadership shake-ups at the agency.
Claude Jacob, 53, is the chief public health officer at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Boston-area health care provider, a position he has held for 14 years. He will take the helm of Metro Health on July 6.
His appointment marks the sixth leadership change at the health district since March 2019, when then-director Colleen Bridger was tapped to temporarily serve as assistant city manager, a position that later became permanent.