The novel coronavirus has now killed more Americans in a single year than all the Americans killed in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam war combined.
FILE – In this July 21, 2020, file photo, Darryl Hutchinson, facing camera, is hugged by a relative during a funeral service for Lydia Nunez, who was Hutchinson’s cousin at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Nunez died from COVID-19. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
(CN) President Joe Biden gave an emotional speech from the White House on Monday, acknowledging the victims of the coronavirus pandemic as the United States crossed the grim marker of 500,000 deaths.
Life expectancy dropped a full year in United States during first half of 2020, CDC says Jessica Schladebeck
Life expectancy dropped a staggering full year in the United States during the first six months of 2020, a devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic, which government and health officials are still working to contain.
The grim finding was revealed Thursday in a report released by the Centers for Disease Control, which provides some of the first major insights into COVID-19′s effect on a person’s life span. Researchers with the National Center for Health Statistics following an analysis of all U.S. deaths and provisional birth records, between January and June 2020 found life expectancy in the United States dropped to 77.8 years from 78.8 years in 2019.
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Tulsa Race Massacre Prayer Room Offers Healing for Tragedy’s Centennial
TULSA, Okla. (BP) – A hundred years after a horrific massacre, Deron Spoo hopes to set the foundation for a new narrative. The senior pastor of Tulsa’s First Baptist has studied the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in which as many as 300 Blacks were killed and 35 blocks of Black-owned homes and businesses were reduced to ashes over a two-day period.
First Baptist was among White congregations that helped house more than 10,000 displaced Black residents. But in the Sundays following the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, comments from pastors of those same churches were not indicative of the aid extended.
The racial gap in vaccination is striking – and dangerous | Editorial
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Posted Jan 31, 2021
Dr. Ala Stanford, a founder of the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, sits for the vaccination, to help build trust within communities of color. (Charles Thompson | Associated Press)Associated Press
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Black and Hispanic Americans are dying from COVID at nearly three times the rate of white Americans, yet based on preliminary data, they’re getting vaccinated at dramatically lower rates. That should alarm us all.
These are the folks most likely to be working in crowded conditions, up close with this virus. We won’t bend the curve if we’re inoculating mostly “middle-class white people,” Dr