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SHARE: A certain amount of faith is required when venturing into the unknown. This is especially true when it comes to new medical advancements.  Luckily, Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, had faith in science on Dec. 14, the day she became the first person to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the U.S. (She received her second and final vaccine dose a little over three weeks later.) “It is rooted in science, I trust science, and the alternative and what I have seen and experienced is far worse,” Lindsay told The New York Times, re...

Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, one year after the last MLK Day saw the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, Choose Healthy Life, led by Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III, will host the Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Conclave, a convening of 100+ Black clergy, America's leading public health officials, corporate and scientific leaders to step into the breach and address COVID-19 in the Black community as part of a national mobilization effort to boost testing and additional health...

Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Action Plan, a group of the nation's leading Black clergy led by Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III, convened a meeting yesterday with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and other top doctors including the National Medical Association to address racial health disparities, fighting COVID-19 in the Black community and the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. (PRNewsfoto/Choose Healthy Life,Quest Diagnostics) Quest Diagno...

today to talk about one thing. >> yeah. what's that? >> how the new york yankees could give up a seven-run lead. no, actually -- >> no, no -- >> we're here to talk about education. >> you promise? just for a day. >> you take -- >> you taking your son to see the yankees? >> right here. right here. as part of our commitment -- no, i'm not talking about that. i'm talking about our commitment to education with starbucks. and we've spent time in schools across the country from new orleans to tampa, florida, to los angeles. and now this morning, we shine a light on to another great success...

i'm talking about our commitment to education with starbucks. and we've spent time in schools across the country from new orleans to tampa, florida, to los angeles. and now this morning, we shine a light on to another great success story in american education. this is the bronx charter school for excellence. we love it. >> this school is among the highest-ranking k-8 schools in all of new york state. and the fifth grade class sits atop all new york city schools. >> is there a teacher here? >> there's some teachers here! you're doing a great job! >> love it. >> it's an unbelievable su...