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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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HBCU Launches First-of-Its-Kind COVID-19 Academy

Three months after the coronavirus disease outbreak in the United States was declared a national emergency, there have been 1.6 million confirmed cases with more than 95,087 deaths. Although the CDC says the effects of COVID-19 on the health of racial and ethnic minority groups are still emerging, current data suggest a disproportionate burden of […]

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Louisiana HBCU, Baylor Med Sign Medical School Agreement

A historically Black university in New Orleans has its seventh agreement to fast-track medical school acceptance for some students. Xavier University of Louisiana and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston announced their early assurance program on May 13. It will let three qualified students a year participate in the collaborative medical track program with Baylor. […]

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Should Medical Schools Require Transgender Health Education?

Given the 1 million to 1.4 million transgender people in the United States, most physicians will have transgender patients at some point as part of their practice. Until recently, this situation often caused consternation and embarrassment for both the patient and the physician. I have had transgender patients tell me that a particular specialist “doesn’t […]

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Public Health Education Key for Growing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

A growing online movement has some medical professionals concerned the nation won’t achieve a herd immunity once a COVID-19 vaccine is developed, underscoring a need for better public health education and provider communication. Although support for vaccinations is generally high — a Gallup survey recently reported that 84 percent of adults agree it’s important children get vaccinated […]

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Noozhawk News Hosting Free Webinars on Mental Health, Education During COVID-19 Pandemic

Noozhawk News is hosting two free webinars next week focused on how the community is dealing with mental wellness and education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first session, at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 27, is entitled “Mental Wellness During the COVID-19 Crisis. Read More

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Some Colleges Are Already Planning for the Next Wave of COVID-19

Even as many colleges are struggling to figure out what the beginning of the new academic year will look like, a few have made public schedules for the next semester that already account for another wave of COVID-19 infections in the fall, which epidemiologists have said is more or less inevitable. The colleges that have […]

The Integrated Liberal Arts Approach: The Curricular Vaccine Higher Education Needs Now More Than Ever

Perhaps the COVID-19 pandemic that we are all battling on a global scale will serve as a great reminder that we need an integrated multidisciplinary lens to create better models, predictions, and policies to understand, prevent and contain the pandemic.

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