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Senators Press Colleges on Safety for Faculty, Staff and Students Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pressed the president of Purdue University on Thursday for his plans to protect employees from the coronavirus pandemic even as the school trumpets its commitment to bring students back to campus for the fall. Low-wage workers, Warren said, are the ones cleaning dormitories and classrooms and providing food and other services […]

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Racism Is a Public health Issue and ‘Police Brutality Must Stop,’ Medical Groups Say

As protests over George Floyd’s death continue nationwide, several doctors’ groups — the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association and American College of Physicians — are emphasizing that racism is a public health issue and they’re calling for police brutality to stop. The American Academy of Pediatrics posted to Twitter on Sunday night that “racism is a public […]

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SUNY, Office of Mental Health Partner to Launch University Crisis Text Line

In partnership with the state Office of Mental Health, the State University of New York has launched a crisis text line and online suicide prevention training program to help New Yorkers, particularly students, confront mental health issues exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The free and confidential crisis text line can be accessed by texting Got5U to 741-741, […]

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New School Furloughs Student Health Services Staff, Cutting Off Students From a Remote Medical Lifeline

Manhattan’s New School is canning most of its student health services staff to cut costs during the pandemic — right when students say they need the remote medical help the most. The private East Village institution furloughed 15 of its 19 health services staffers on May 16, including all its doctors and 2/3 of its […]

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College Students Count on Their Schools for Mental-Health Help, But Now Many Can’t Get It

It had been a tough five years at George Washington University, but when Hannah’s last semester arrived, so did relief. She started applying for jobs, envisioning life away from the District. The feeling didn’t last. One night in March, Hannah, in Florida for a job interview, met up with friends in Fort Lauderdale, where a […]

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Many Massachusetts Colleges Uncertain About Robust COVID-19 Testing on Campus

Many Massachusetts colleges are uncertain they will be able to put robust COVID-19 testing mechanisms in place on their campuses if and when they reopen for fall 2020, reported The Boston Globe. An advisory group of a dozen Massachusetts college presidents, set up by Gov. Charlie Baker, conducted a survey of nearly 90 campus leaders to ask […]

Meharry Proposes Consortium of HBCU Med Schools to Tackle COVID-19’s Uneven Toll

The president of the historically Black Meharry Medical College said on Wednesday that a consortium of the nation’s four Black medical schools would be the group best prepared to tackle the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black people and communities of color. In testimony on Wednesday, before a virtual convening of the House Ways and […]

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HBCU Meharry Medical College Gets NIH Support to Advance COVID-19 Drug Development

This historically Black Meharry Medical College said on Friday that it will get vital research and technical support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance its development of a drug for patients infected with COVID-19. For Meharry, this means that MRCV-19, the compound it is developing, can sprint forward to the NIH for […]

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Ohio Public Health Officials Apologized After Releasing Mask Guidance for African Americans to Avoid Wearing Face Coverings With ‘Gang Symbolism’

Public health officials in Franklin County, Ohio apologized last week after they released guidance on wearing face masks that targeted the African American community and urged it against wearing facial coverings that elicited “gang symbolism.” “Franklin County Public Health apologizes for a recent guidance document focused on mask coverings for African Americans,” the agency said […]

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‘A Dark Cloud’: Evanston Leaders Concerned with Disproportionate Rates of Coronavirus Among Black and Latino Residents

For weeks, preliminary data showed black Americans in Illinois, among other states, were disproportionately contracting and dying from COVID-19. Not only has that trend continued in cities like Evanston, but Illinois Department of Public Health statistics show a steady increase in cases among Latino city residents as well. Black residents comprise 24.6 percent of confirmed cases, yet […]

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Pandemic Underscores Need for DACA as High Court Considers Its Fate

As the nation’s doctors, nurses and other health care heroes fight a pandemic, the U.S. Supreme Court grapples with a case that could remove about 27,000 health professionals from the battlefield—including 200 medical students, residents and physicians. The court case began well before the global pandemic struck. Even then, the stakes were high in a […]

COVID-19 Will Intensify Education Inequities for Black Students

In the United States, data reveal that Black Americans are contracting and dying from the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at rates that double, and sometimes triple their representation across various states. In Illinois, 43% of people who have died are African-American, although the race makes up only 15% of the population. In Louisiana, 70% of the […]

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