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Previous image Next image In a new study by MIT professors Esther Duflo, Ben Olken, and Abhijit Banerjee, and physicians Marcella Alsan and Fatima Cody Stanford, along with other doctors and economists, public health video messages featuring a racially diverse set of physicians were found to decrease knowledge gaps about Covid-19 symptoms and transmission — generating important lessons about how we communicate about, and work to mitigate the effects of, the virus. Study results also indicated that, for Black individuals, watching a video with a racially concordant (Black) physician increase...

"I'm not going to be a guinea pig." Dr. Angela Hawkins heard this refrain more than a few times as she discussed the COVID-19 vaccine with her patients. Hawkins said people of all races have made these remarks, but the majority of them were Black. Such skepticism didn't surprise her at all. As a member of the Oklahoma Alliance of Black Physicians, Hawkins is trying to educate Black communities about the safety of the vaccine in the hope that more individuals will get it at the first opportunity. It's a message that is also being spread by state leaders like Sen. George...

US: Doctors Slam Racism To Black Colleague In Deathbed Black female physician claimed white doctor giving her treatment repeatedly ignored complaints, wanted to send her home. A number of doctors in the US criticized the racist treatment a Black female physician received in a hospital, who later died due to complications from COVID-19. Dr. Susan Moore, a 52-year-old Black physician, was being treated for the novel coronavirus at Indiana University Health North Hospital in Carmel, Indiana, her hometown, after she tested positive for C...