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Just over two weeks before she died of complications from COVID-19 in December 2020, Dr. Susan G. Moore recorded a smartphone video from her bed in an Indiana hospital. In the recording, which went viral, the Black physician accused a white doctor of letting racial bias affect his medical decisions, from evading her requests for a CT scan, to playing down her pain complaints and refusing to prescribe additional narcotic painkillers. “He made me feel like I was a drug addict,” Moore, a 52-year-old family physician, said into the camera. “I maintain that if I was white, I wouldn’t have ...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Poorer and minority older adults are suspicious of the US health care system - a new study shows why Sign In Marc Cohen, University of Massachusetts Boston April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Marc Cohen, University of Massachusetts Boston and Jane Tavares, University of Massachusetts Boston (THE CONVERSATION) Just over two weeks before she died of complications from COVID-19 in December 2020, Dr. Susan G. Moore recorded a smartphone video from her bed in an Indiana hospital. In the recording, which went viral, the Black physician accused a white doctor o...

Tennessee’s first federal mass vaccination site opening in Memphis next week Tennessee's first federal mass vaccination site opening in Memphis By Kelly Roberts | March 31, 2021 at 5:45 PM CDT - Updated March 31 at 6:51 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The federal government is opening one of its community vaccination centers in Memphis. About 25 CVCs are open across the country. Memphis’ site was one of three announced by the White House COVID-19 Response Team Wednesday. The federal government will bring its own personnel and vaccine when it opens the site at the Pipkin Building nex...

The more contagious coronavirus mutation known as B-117, first reported in the United Kingdom, now accounts for 26 percent of the virus circulating in the United States, the director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.

WCCB Charlotte's CW April 1, 2021 The Latest (4/1/21): As of April 1st, there were 102,455 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) with 913 deaths due to COVID-19 reported among Mecklenburg County residents. Data as of March 31 are presented in more detail below. MCPH provides these routine updates about reported cases of COVID-19 to help our community better understand how this pandemic is developing in our county. These results only reflect laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 among county residents. Many individuals infected by COVID-19 have not been tested because they are asymptomatic. A...