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Distrust over the Covid-19 vaccine runs high among Black Americans, but Black doctors are waging a battle to get the community informed — and vaccinated.
For months, Dr. Carlos Araujo-Preza stayed overnight at his hospital to care for Covid patients around the clock. By November, he was the one in need of ICU care.
99% of Americans live within 50 miles of a pharmacy that is expected to carry the Covid-19 vaccine, a figure that drops to 80% within 5 miles and 34% within a mile.
Generations of experimentation on Black Americans and dismissal at the hands of medical professionals have left many skeptical of the medical field and wary of taking a vaccine. (2/7)
“I feel like I’m screaming into a void in trying to get people to understand that I can see that this will fail if we continue to do what we normally do,” says Dr. Brittani James, a family physician in a low-income and predominantly Black section of Chicago’s South Side. (3/7)
In Feb. 1990, Berneice Evans was a single mother working at a dry cleaner when police officers bashed open the door of her apartment in Neptune, New Jersey.
Raising guns at her 2 young daughters and their elderly babysitter, they announced a raid. (2/10)
Evans, who earned a couple of hundred dollars a week at her day job, sometimes sold small bags of pot — a side hustle that she and others in economically depressed neighborhoods pursued to help pay bills. (3/10)
US is averaging 2,316 deaths/day over the last week, up from 1,329 deaths/day four weeks ago.
Single-day coronavirus case records set in US states Thursday:
New Jersey: 9,993 cases
New York: 11,995 cases
Single-day coronavirus death records set in US states Thursday:
Nevada: 50 deaths
US coronavirus cases (weekdays):
Nov 23: 178,757
Nov 24: 173,429
Nov 25: 183,233
Nov 26: 124,891 (Thanksgiving)
Nov 27: 192,674
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Nov 30: 163,873
Dec 1: 181,112
Dec 2: 204,943
Dec 3: 219,394
Dec 4: 187,078
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Dec 7: 214,547
Dec 8: 222,211
Dec 9: 222,994
Dec 10: 229,928 (record)
NEW: Chairman of House subcmte. on coronavirus Clyburn is demanding more info from officials in the admin. after a career employee at CDC testified about a political appointee's efforts to "alter or rescind" info considered damaging to President Trump. nbcnews.to/2JVAnBn
Chairman Clyburn writes that the testimony raises "serious concern about what may be deliberate efforts by the Trump Administration to conceal and destroy evidence that senior political appointees interfered with career officials’ response to the coronavirus crisis" at the CDC.
Clyburn’s letter reveals that on Monday, Dr. Charlotte Kent, Chief of the Scientific Publications Branch and Editor-in-Chief of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, stated she had been instructed to destroy an email and that she understood the order came from Dr. Redfield.
US is averaging 2,307 deaths/day over the last week, up from 1,213 deaths/day four weeks ago.
Single-day coronavirus case records set in US states Wednesday:
ID: 4,310 cases (reported zero on Tues.)
MS: 2,746
TN: 8,213
VA: 4,398
Coronavirus death records set in US states Wednesday:
CO: 149 deaths
ID: 48 (reported zero on Tues.)
NM: 67 (reported zero on Tues.)
WV: 31
US coronavirus cases (weekdays):
Nov 23: 178,757
Nov 24: 173,429
Nov 25: 183,233
Nov 26: 124,891 (Thanksgiving)
Nov 27: 192,674
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Nov 30: 163,873
Dec 1: 181,112
Dec 2: 204,943
Dec 3: 219,394
Dec 4: 187,078
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Dec 7: 214,547
Dec 8: 222,211
Dec 9: 222,994 (record)
A weekly benefit of $600 for people who lost their jobs or couldn’t work in the pandemic ended in July with no legislative replacement, and funding to keep small businesses afloat is tapped out as well.