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After George Floyd's death, many declared racism a public health crisis. How much changed?
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoAs the summer of 2020 heated up, the nation's racial divides were once again laid bare. The COVID-19...
CDC head resigns, blindsiding many health officials
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who guided President Joe Biden’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic from...
Azeem Rafiq to provide fresh testimony on racism in cricket to DCMS committee
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAzeem Rafiq is poised to provide fresh testimony to a parliamentary committee on Tuesday concerning...
The uncounted: People of color are dying at much higher rates than what COVID data suggests
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt’s not always easy to identify a COVID-19 death. If someone dies at home, if they have symptoms not typically associated with the disease or if they die when local health systems are overwhelmed ...
HIV infections drop, but racial gaps remain
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoData from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Tuesday shows a significant drop in new HIV infections across the U.S. — a 12 percent...
Biden says HIV/AIDS strategy needs to confront inequity
KRON via Yahoo News· 6 months agoWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled his new HIV/AIDS strategy to end the...
13 Times Tucker Carlson Should Have Been Fired
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOutrage on the right. Schadenfreude on the left. Tucker’s out at Fox News! Tucker Carlson is not a journalist. He may have worked for an outfit called...
HIV is still increasing among Black Americans: These 2 Ohioans are trying to change that
Gannett via AOL· 6 months agoMarko Phillips and Jet Jama have never met each other. They grew up decades apart. And they're from...
Opinion: Our sons died from the flu. Take it seriously.
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 2 years ago“It’s just the flu”: We’ve all heard this phrase many times, typically as a means of reassurance for or from someone in the throes of a respiratory illness. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
For Black Americans, the pandemic spike in fentanyl deaths was decades in the making
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA new CDC report shows that more Black Americans died from fentanyl overdoses than from any other...