People Over 75 Are First in Line to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19. The Average Black Person Here Doesnât Live That Long.
Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccinations for people 75 and up can leave out Black Americans, who tend to die younger than their white counterparts. In majority-Black Shelby County, TN, this gap raises questions of how to make the vaccine rollout equitable. (Source: Emily Wakeman) By Wendi C. Thomas and Hannah Grabenstein, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, ProPublica | February 22, 2021 at 6:22 PM CST - Updated February 22 at 6:26 PM
âThis story was originally published by ProPublica.â People Over 75 Are First in Line to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19. The Average Black Person Here Doesnât Live That Long.
Amid mounting tuition fees and a global pandemic, parents and students may be reconsidering the value of a higher education. With Covid-19 closing campuses and…
Sun, 18 Oct 2020 19:56 UTC Since I started medical school in 1976, until 2020, I have heard the dogma that viral diseases are not treatable (with some exceptions such as antivirals for HIV/AIDS), certainly not with antimicrobials. My older son, a newly minted general surgeon, was educated much more recently, but with the same misunderstanding. Since viral diseases are not treatable, our only weapon is vaccination. A friend who spent his life as an academic university physician retiring in 2016 had never heard this fact either. As the pandemic broke out, I constantly watched and read online publications. After reading about the Chinese, Indian, and Korean use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), an antimalarial agent, against coronavirus, within an hour I found more than 20 scientific papers, written in the last 40 years on the use of lysosomotropic agents specifically chloroquine to treat viruses. Like Rip Van Winkle, I suddenly awoke, after decades, to a completely new medical reali
Baird, First Horizon and Psych Hub announce updates
Parker Griffith
Asset management firm and investment bank Baird has expanded its Tennessee wealth management office network to 12 with the addition of The WillowPointe Group in Cookeville, which manages more than $270 million for its clients.
The WillowPointe team comes to Baird from UBS and is led by Larry Taylor, who is now a Baird director and financial advisor, and Steve Boots, a senior vice president and financial advisor. They are supported by Associate Financial Advisor Rachel Dalton, Senior Client Specialist Amy Ray and Client Assistant Amber Underwood Taylor. I m so pleased to welcome Larry, Steve and the entire WillowPointe Group, Parker Griffith (pictured), Southeastern market director for Baird s private wealth management group, said in a release. Baird is excited to continue the expansion of our Tennessee footprint through this new branch and the team of talented professionals that share our deep co