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Beatrice Evans knocked on every door in her 100-unit apartment complex on B Street SE. As the president of the Triangle View Apartments tenant association, she is the ideal messenger to share information about the COVID-19 vaccine.
“You got people who want it, and then you got people, those hesitant people,” Evans, 67, says of her neighbors.
Nearly every Triangle View resident is Black. Those who are wary of getting vaccinated understand America’s history of medically mistreating Black people. In the 1930s, federal health officials recruited Black men, many of them poor, to participate in what is now known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. The men were only treated with placebos despite a treatment being available and man
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At the end of December, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services
Wayne Turnage came to D.C. councilmembers with an emergency. The District’s Medicaid contract, which, at $1.5 billion, is among the largest that the D.C. government hands out, was in trouble.
Turnage lobbied councilmembers on emergency legislation that would essentially sidestep a Contract Appeals Board ruling on the District’s violation of procurement law and create an exemption for MedStar, one of the three companies chosen to manage health care for Medicaid beneficiaries. The goal, he says, was to avoid yanking 67,000 of the most “medically fragile” residents from one health insurance plan to another twice in one year.
As D.C. region sets record for coronavirus deaths, Hogan expands vaccine access in Maryland Erin Cox, Julie Zauzmer, Meagan Flynn Maryland announced plans Tuesday for six new mass vaccination centers staffed by the National Guard on a day marked by the most coronavirus-related deaths in the greater Washington region since the start of the pandemic. Virginia, Maryland and D.C. reported 165 fatalities, breaking a record set two weeks earlier. Each jurisdiction had a death toll Tuesday that was well above its rolling seven-day average a number that also reached a new high in the region Tuesday of 103 deaths. Virginia’s 93 new deaths set a daily record when excluding state reporting anomalies.
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Deaths among D.C.’s homeless jumped this year, including 23 who died of the coronavirus Justin Wm. Moyer Karim el-Amin, 42, took shelter Dec. 8 in his tent near Thomas Circle in Northwest Washington. Temperatures were turning colder that week, with lows hovering near freezing. Amin, who suffered from medical issues, did not come out again. The next day when someone checked on him, he was found dead. He is buried with family members at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, just across the D.C. line in Prince George’s County. “I guess he died in his sleep,” said his brother, Qaadir el-Amin. “At least it was a peaceful death.”