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Don't show me this message again✕ Scientists and medical professionals have refuted an anti-vaxxer conspiracy theory regarding the death of baseball legend Hank Aaron. Mr Aaron publicly announced on social media that he had received the Covid-19 vaccine on 5 January, to encourage fellow Black Americans to get vaccinated when it was their time. On Friday, 22 January the baseball Hall of Famer passed away in his sleep, aged 86. Conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers seized on the news, claiming that Mr Aaron’s death was suspicious given its proximity to his receiving the vaccine. The medical...

Mark Harris YOU WOULD never think that a 1988 American Heart Association (AHA) conference would set the stage for decades of debate around—of all things—sodium and race. But that’s where Clarence Grim, M.D., seeded a theory about Black health that has been difficult to uproot ever since. Dr. Grim, then the director of the hypertension research center at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, hypothesized that high rates of hypertension among African Americans were due to the horrors of slavery, including the Middle Passage, the mass transport of slaves f...

'African Gene Theory' Is a Myth, and It's Harming Black Men's Heart Health Rozalynn S. Frazier © Mark Harris, Men's Health 'African Gene Theory' is a myth and its entrenchment in the medical community may be harming the heart health of Black men. Here's why sodium is not to blame. YOU WOULD never think that a 1988 American Heart Association (AHA) conference would set the stage for decades of debate around—of all things—sodium and race. But that’s where Clarence Grim, M.D., seeded a theory about Black health that has been difficult to uproot ever since. Dr. Grim, then ...

NC isn't checking immigration status as it offers COVID vaccine but residents have fears Aaron Sánchez-Guerra and Sophie Kasakove, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Jan. 23—As a housekeeper, Ana Huerta has spent the pandemic disinfecting and cleaning surfaces in homes and factories in the Triangle and is unable to work from home. Huerta, a Mexican immigrant, wants to be vaccinated to avoid bringing the coronavirus home to her two small children, but she has worried that lacking legal immigration status could prevent her from getting the COVID-19 vaccine. "It would make no...