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Get our free newsletter Success! You re on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn t process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing… I already get the newsletter 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 ....
Feb 19, 2021 - 01:37 PM by Joy Lewis With our nation’s COVID-19 vaccine administration rollout underway, policy influencers and advocacy groups are focusing on communities of color that have been disproportionately impacted by the fluctuating pandemic. Over the last year, COVID-19 has laid bare long-standing health disparities compounded by significant COVID-19 testing, treatment and vaccine distribution inequities. The narrative that members of historically underrepresented and underserved communities are hesitant to get vaccines minimizes the reality that for many who want to receive the vaccine, access issues are a real and growing barrier. “The Biden-Harris Administration is committed 100% to a vaccine strategy that is fair and equitable,” said Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, Chair of the Administration’s COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. At a Feb. 18 virtual workshop hosted by the Black Coalition Against COVID-19, Nunez-S ....
From Dr. Jacqueline Delmont, Chief Medical Officer at Somos, gives Helen Washington, 76, the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site at St. Luke s Episcopal Church in the Bronx. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo toggle caption Mary Altaffer/AP Photo The center of D.C. s first documented outbreak of the coronavirus last spring was a church in Georgetown, in wealthy and majority-white Ward 2. But once the virus started spreading rapidly across the city, its devastating effects fell hardest on Black and Latino residents. Ward 8, which is 92% Black, has seen the highest per-capita death rate from the virus in the District. And citywide, 74% of residents who have died from the coronavirus are Black, even though Black people make up 46% of the city s population. ....
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