These Meme Accounts May Be Contributing to COVID Stigma and Public Health Misinformation thebody.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thebody.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ms. Yvonka Marie Hall, MPA
Serves as the Executive Director of the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition and co founder of the Cleveland Lead Safe Network.
She is a nationally recognized award winning health disparities expert and serves on the board the Ohio Healthy Homes Network; Health & Human Services Region V Health Education Advisory Committee; Multi Ethnic Advocates for Cultural Competency (MACC) and a member of the United Way Accountable Communities Health Committee.
She is a proud member of the National Council of the Negro Women Cuyahoga County Section, Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus, The National Coalition of 100 Black Women Greater Cleveland Chapter and the Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc., Greater Cleveland Chapter. She was recently elected to the Democratic Party of Cuyahoga County Central Committee Member representing District N. The Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition was named the 2019 Voices of Health Champion by Aetna, received the 2019 National Coa
Racial minorities more likely to become infected with COVID-19
An analysis of Kaiser Permanente members in Northern California early in the COVID-19 pandemic found that racial minorities were more likely than white patients to test positive for COVID-19. The findings are published in
Annals of Internal Medicine.
Researchers from Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Medical Group, and Stanford Cancer Institute studied health records for 3.5 million patients in the Kaiser Health system, more than 91,000 of whom received a COVID-19 test between Feb. 1 and May 31, 2020. That data showed that Latino patients were nearly 4 times as likely as white patients to become infected with the virus, while Asian and Black patients were 2 times as likely to test positive for COVID-19 compared to white patients. The odds of hospitalization were also higher for Latino, Asian, and Black patients with COVID-19 than for white patients. However, the study did not find racial disparities in mortality amon
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HCA Healthcare this week announced a new collaborative project through which it will work with leading public and private research institutions to make use of HCA s troves of COVID-19 hospital care data to improve treatments, outcomes and public health.
WHY IT MATTERS
The COVID-19 Consortium of HCA Healthcare and Academia for Research GEneration – COVID-19 CHARGE – will enable cooperation and coordination among all members to develop new research initiatives, validate methods and share innovative ideas.
Participating healthcare organizations will gain access to the data in a research program directed by the HCA Healthcare Research Institute.
The work will be based on a technology platform from DataFleets that allows multiple collaborators to explore trends in a protected environment that obscures individually-identifying information, according to HCA. Among the members of COVID-19 CHARGE:
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