Update, 3 p.m.: DC Health notified the public this afternoon that a “technical review failure” meant newly eligible residents were unable to register for the COVID-19 vaccine. “As the IT team worked to stabilize the website due to heavy traffic, there were delays in finding and fixing the issue with the eligibility criteria,” the agency said. The agency apologized for the added stress, and announced that it’d be making 3,500 appointments available to people who couldn’t sign up namely, residents with specific medical conditions living in priority zip codes on Saturday, Feb. 27 at 9 a.m. People can sign up through vaccinate.dc.gov or the call center.
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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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The contributions made by African and Black American medical professionals to health and wellness are many. While determining just how many lives these trailblazers saved is impossible, we know that without their imagination, knowledge, and desire to help others many lives would have been lost. Since it is Black History Month, now is the perfect time to recognize and celebrate some of the numerous contributions the Black community has afforded the medical industry and the world overall.
Around 1716 – Onesimus
Onesimus is an African slave who, in 1706, is gifted to Cotton Mather, the Puritan minister. Mather recognizes that Onesimus is exceptional and considers him an individual with intelligence. As such, Mather begins instructing Onesimus, teaching him how to read and how to write, thus ensuring that Onesimus represents the Mather household well.
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Grocery store workers, health and human services and social services outreach workers, and food packaging and manufacturing workers are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccinations in D.C.
DC Health the agency that receives all of the city’s doses from the federal government says workers can book appointments through the portal, vaccinate.dc.gov, or by calling (855) 363-0333. On Thursday, Feb. 18, appointments become available at 6 p.m., but only to workers who live in priority zip codes in Wards 5, 7, and 8, communities disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus. On Friday, Feb. 19 at 6 p.m., newly eligible D.C. workers, regardless of where they live, can book an appointment online or by phone. The District government is onl