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Undecided About Getting Vaccinated for COVID-19? Please consider: In getting vaccinated and protecting yourself, you also protect your family, friends, co-workers, and even people you don't know; If enough people get vaccinated, we will have herd immunity. That means people who can't get vaccinated because of illness or because they can't tolerate the vaccine will be safer from COVID-19; The vaccine can help prevent you from getting sick with COVID-19. But in the rare case you do develop COVID-19, your illness is less likely to be serious;...
Continued from last week- Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a group of inherited (genetic) disorders of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin moves oxygen throughout our bodies. The first one of these diseases, Sickle Cell Anemia was discovered in this country 110 years ago although it had been here centuries before that. It came with slavery from Africa. It is a chronic vascular disease with many acute and chronic complications generally marked by excruciating pain brought on by blockages in small blood vessels. People with SCD have less hemoglobin as a result...
So what's all the fuss about Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) being on the map now? Well we are less than two months away from the election so that may have something to do with it. The White House recently elevated the importance of SCD as a health issue and President Trump issued a Presidential Proclamation on August 31, 2020 to that effect. September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. And on this past Monday, September 14, 2020 First Lady Melania Trump hosted a White House roundtable discussion: "Improving the Lives of Americans with Sickle...
In Public Health Too? In the June 4 – June 10, 2020 edition of The Monroe Dispatch (see Racism in America: A Public Health Crisis, page 10), I stated that top public health officials are calling racism a public health crisis. By the time the ink had dried on the page of my essay, the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) was being accused of discrimination. A complaint filed with the Office of Inspector General on behalf of at least 10 black epidemiologists employed with the agency alleges they were excluded from the core COVID-19 response...
The events that have unfolded in the past two weeks in our country are unprecedented: another senseless killing of a Black man, George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police; an uprising on the part of people of many colors protesting the treatment of African Americans; clashes with police resulting in more death and the destruction of property in our cities; and, as cities have begun to relax COVID-19 measures, a general disregard for the fact that the world is still only in the beginning of a pandemic. George Floyd’s death represents a n...
