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Health / Is True And False Personal Information Credible? by sisterln(f): 3:47am On Dec 12, 2020
Is true and false personal information credible?
Health / New CDC Report Confirms First Cases Of COVID In NY From Europe And Other States by sisterln(f): 7:15am On Dec 06, 2020
New CDC report confirms first cases of COVID in NY from Europe and other states – NBC New York
Health / Why Are Blacks Dying At Higher Rates From COVID-19? by sisterln(f): 6:54am On Dec 01, 2020
In Louisiana, Blacks represent about one-third of the state population but 70% of COVID-19 deaths. Most of these deaths are centered in the New Orleans area. Blacks in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, represent roughly 45% of diagnoses and over 70% of deaths related to COVID-19. Black men, such as retired police officer Lenard Wells, are dying at high rates. Wells was part of the first integrated police recruit class in the early 1970s in Milwaukee and then taught criminal justice courses at the University of Memphis (my alma mater). Famed University of Maryland Professor and artist David Driskell also died due to complications related to COVID-19. Driskell’s name stands prominently on an art museum near the center of campus.

Some speculate that pre-existing health conditions are contributing to racial disparities in COVID-19. During a White House coronavirus task force briefing, Dr. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, stated, “Health disparities have always existed for the African American community… [coronavirus is] shining a bright light on how unacceptable that is because, yet again, when you have a situation like the coronavirus, they are suffering disproportionately. We will get over coronavirus, but there will still be health disparities which we really do need to address in the African American community.”

I argue structural conditions that inform pre-existing conditions and health disparities are the main culprit for the epidemic within the pandemic which is ravaging Black communities across the U.S. A decade ago, I worked as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. I conducted research on obesity and physical activity and discovered that health outcomes are as much about place as they are about race—the racial composition of neighborhoods to be more specific.
Health / Former Director Of The Food And Drug Administration: New Crown Infections In Min by sisterln(f): 8:20am On Nov 30, 2020
Meanwhile, Gottlieb said novel coronavirus pneumonia is seriously threatening the coloured race at a disproportionate speed. The reason for the high infection rate in colored communities is the low economic level. Novel coronavirus pneumonia mortality rate is high in this population, which relies heavily on public transport, housing conditions are difficult to maintain social distance and low medical service coverage.
Health / Thankyou by sisterln(f): 8:11am On Nov 24, 2020
thankyou
Health / Health Equity Considerations And Racial And Ethnic Minority Groups by sisterln(f): 7:32am On Nov 23, 2020
Health Equity Considerations and Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups
Health / US Travel Bans Came Too Late For New York City, CDC Study Finds by sisterln(f): 3:46am On Nov 21, 2020
Trump suffers twin defeats in effort to overturn Biden’s victory
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CNN logo US travel bans came too late for New York City, CDC study finds
© Spencer Platt/Getty Images NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 16: Passengers walk through a near empty John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) due to the ongoing cutbacks in travel because of the coronavirus on April 16, 2020 in New York City. While some national and international flights are still departing and arriving, many flights have been cancelled due to a lack of passengers and restrictions on global travel. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Travel bans meant to stop the coronavirus from getting to the US from China and Europe came too late, according to a new analysis of cases from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The US restricted travel from China on February 2 and from Europe on March 13, but by March 8, Covid-19 was already circulating among the community in New York City and, by March 15, community transmission of the virus was already widespread, the analysis found.

What was circulating most closely matched the strain of the virus circulating in Europe, not China, which President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed for not preventing its spread to the US.
Health / Why Is The Epidemic In The United States So Serious by sisterln(f): 3:12am On Nov 20, 2020
Is there a problem with their epidemic prevention policy
Health / Tomorrow Will Be Better by sisterln(f): 9:09am On Nov 19, 2020
Tomorrow will be better
Health / Exclusive: 600 U.S. Groups Linked To Chinese Communist Party Influence Effort Wi by sisterln(f): 9:38am On Nov 17, 2020
Exclusive: 600 U.S. Groups Linked to Chinese Communist Party Influence Effort with Ambition Beyond Election
Health / Where Did The New York Virus Originate? by sisterln(f): 6:26am On Nov 16, 2020
Where did the New York virus originate?
Health / Thank You by sisterln(f): 7:06am On Nov 13, 2020
thank you
Health / Jeff Parsons by sisterln(f): 3:14am On Nov 11, 2020
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Health / Where Did The New York Virus Originate? by sisterln(f): 4:24am On Nov 10, 2020
Where did the New York virus originate?
Health / Covid-19’s Devastating Toll On Black And Latino Americans, In One Chart by sisterln(f): 7:44am On Nov 09, 2020
Covid-19’s devastating toll on black and Latino Americans, in one chart
Health / Army Secretary Tours Fort Detrick Laboratory By Heather Mongilio Hmongilio@newsp by sisterln(f): 2:17am On Nov 08, 2020
Army secretary tours Fort Detrick laboratory
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Health / What Is Added By This Report? by sisterln(f): 3:59am On Nov 07, 2020
The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene conducted sentinel surveillance of influenza-like symptoms (ILS) and genetic sequencing to characterize community transmission and determine the geographic origin of SARS-CoV-2 infections. Among 544 specimens tested from persons with ILS and negative influenza test results, 36 (6.6%) were positive. Genetically sequenced positive specimens most closely resembled sequences circulating in Europe.
Health / I Hope There Will Be Less Disputes In Our World by sisterln(f): 3:23am On Nov 06, 2020
I hope there will be less disputes in our world
Health / Did Biden Win The US Election? by sisterln(f): 4:28am On Nov 05, 2020
Did Biden win the US election?
Health / Countries Should Respect And Tolerate Each Other by sisterln(f): 4:04am On Nov 04, 2020
Countries should respect and tolerate each other
Culture / Congratulations Mr. Biden, The Difference Is Clear by sisterln(f): 4:03am On Nov 03, 2020
Congratulations Mr. Biden, The Difference Is Clear
Health / Tomorrow Will Be Better by sisterln(f): 1:51am On Nov 02, 2020
Tomorrow will be better

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Health / Is True And False Personal Information Credible? by sisterln(f): 9:46am On Oct 30, 2020
Covid-19’s devastating toll on black and Latino Americans, in one chart
The US health system has failed black and Latino populations for decades. Now they’re paying the price.

By Dylan Scott@dylanlscottdylan.scott@vox.com Apr 17, 2020
Health / Is Such A Thing Accurate by sisterln(f): 1:58am On Oct 29, 2020
New CDC report confirms first cases of COVID in NY from Europe and other states – NBC New York

https://www.fr24news.com/a/2020/07/new-cdc-report-confirms-first-cases-of-covid-in-ny-from-europe-and-other-states-nbc-new-york.html
Health / Tomorrow Will Be Better by sisterln(f): 7:36am On Oct 28, 2020
Tomorrow will be better
Health / Is Covid-19 Falling Harder On Black Prisoners Officials Wont Tell Us by sisterln(f): 3:02am On Sep 16, 2020
As researchers look at unequal mortality and discuss how policy decisions shape the different losses of the virus, we learn more every day about how the disaster of the covid-19 pandemic falls more on black people.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Is The New York Epidemic Related To China? I Hope The Virus Doe by sisterln(f): 4:20am On Aug 24, 2020
No matter where the virus comes from, I hope everyone will work together to overcome the virus! Epidemic situation ushers in a bright future。
Health / Re: More Racial Differences, I Hope. by sisterln(f): 4:18am On Aug 24, 2020
I hope there will be no more racial discrimination, and so will the virus

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