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    At a Kedren Community Health Center vaccine clinic in South Central Los Angeles this month, 89-year-old Cecilia Onwytalu (center) signals she's more than ready to get her immunization against COVID-19.
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    Race Versus Time: Targeting Vaccine To The Most Vulnerable Is No Speedy Task

    Feb 23, 2021
    The Biden team wants to swiftly vaccinate people of color and others most vulnerable to COVID-19. But health centers are learning that speed and achieving racial equity don't always go hand in hand.
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    Investigations
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    Across The South, COVID-19 Vaccine Sites Missing From Black And Hispanic Neighborhoods

    Feb 05, 2021
    An NPR analysis of COVID-19 vaccination sites in major cities across the Southern U.S. reveals a racial disparity, with most sites located in whiter neighborhoods.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis

    'The Separate and Unequal Health System' Highlighted By COVID-19

    Jan 21, 2021

    A South Los Angeles hospital has long provided for an underserved community where private insurance is scarce and chronic illnesses can flourish. And then came a devastating coronavirus surge.

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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    An investigation by the inspector general for the U.S. Air Force showed Black service members are far more likely to be investigated or face disciplinary actions, among other disparities.
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    Air Force Investigation Finds Black Members Face Racial Disparity In Service

    Dec 22, 2020
    Two out of five Black Air Force members don't trust their chain of command to address racism, bias and unequal opportunities.
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    Shots - Health News
    Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued a report on racial disparities and COVID-19 calling for congressional action.
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    Senate Democrats Call On Congress To Fix Racial Disparities In Health Care

    Oct 01, 2020
    A new report highlights the disproportionate harm the pandemic has done to Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, and systemic factors behind it. It lays out steps to repair the problems.
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    Nearly 40% of student loan payers are helping someone else pay off their student loans, a new study found.
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    'A Family Affair': Others Often Chip In To Help Pay Off Student Loans

    Oct 01, 2020
    Student debt doesn't only affect the person who goes to college. Nearly 40% of student loan payers are helping someone else pay off their student loans, a new study found.
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    As Pandemic Deaths Add Up, Racial Disparities Persist — And In Some Cases Worsen

    Sep 23, 2020
    With more complete racial data for COVID-19 available, the trends are impossible to ignore: Minorities are getting sick and dying at disproportionate rates. Here's a state-by-state analysis.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    A child washes her hands at a daycare center in Connecticut last month. A detailed look at COVID-19 deaths in U.S. kids and young adults by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the great majority are children of color.
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    The Majority Of Children Who Die From COVID-19 Are Children Of Color

    Sep 15, 2020
    According to data reported to the CDC, 121 children died from COVID-19 between February and July of this year. And 78% of the children who died were Hispanic, Black or Native American.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    An installation of children's art is set up outside the Capitol on Wednesday. Kids can develop "severe" symptoms from the coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released Friday.
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    Children Can Get Severe COVID-19, CDC Says — Especially Black And Hispanic Children

    Aug 08, 2020
    One out of three children hospitalized for the coronavirus was admitted to the intensive care unit, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, analyzing data from 14 states.
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    Shots - Health News
    COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans, according to Medicare claims data.
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    Black Medicare Patients With COVID-19 Nearly 4 Times As Likely To End Up In Hospital

    Jun 22, 2020
    An analysis of claims data shows stark racial disparities among Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with COVID-19.
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    Shots - Health News
    Frederick Haynes, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in south Dallas, poses for a portrait during Project Unity's "Together We Test" coronavirus testing at a Friendship-West campus in South Dallas, Texas, on May 28, 2020.
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    To Combat Disparities, Black Churches In Dallas Offer Coronavirus Testing

    Jun 13, 2020
    African Americans are hard hit by COVID-19, but in some Texas cities, it's not easy to get a test in minority neighborhoods. An effort by local churches aims to fix this.
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    What Do Coronavirus Racial Disparities Look Like State By State?

    May 30, 2020
    NPR's analysis shows just how stark the impact has been on African-Americans and Latinos. Experts say the pandemic will go on — for everyone — unless we direct resources where they're most needed.
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    A cross with flowers and the letter "A" sits at the entrance to the Satilla Shores neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed.
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    'Unarmed Black Man' Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means

    May 21, 2020
    Three words that repeatedly appear in stories about racially motivated shootings reinforce the biased assumptions that journalists are trying to expose.
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    Shots - Health News
    An EMT wearing protective equipment moves a patient into Elmhurst Hospital Center in the Queens borough of New York. Preliminary data suggest COVID-19 is having a disproportionate impact on communities of color.
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    Who's Hit Hardest By COVID-19? Why Obesity, Stress And Race All Matter

    Apr 18, 2020
    Data shows people with certain chronic conditions are more likely to get severe COVID-19 symptoms. Why are they hit harder and what explains the disease's disproportionate affect on African Americans?
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    Shots - Health News
    While more affluent parts of Nashville have had testing sites for weeks, this drive-through testing site at Meharry Medical College, in a historically African American neighborhood, experienced weeks of delays because staff couldn't acquire the needed te
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    The Coronavirus Doesn't Discriminate, But U.S. Health Care Showing Familiar Biases

    Apr 02, 2020
    Most available coronavirus data doesn't include ethnic or racial demographics, but public health experts say they fear the response to the pandemic will lead to predictable health care disparities.
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    Shots - Health News
    Black mothers are more likely than white mothers to die during pregnancy or delivery or in the year following.
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    Why Racial Gaps In Maternal Mortality Persist

    May 10, 2019
    Black and Native American women die of pregnancy-related causes at a higher rate than white women. Researchers say the gaps are driven by unequal access to health care and the experience of racism.
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    Shots - Health News
    Buprenorphine, better known by the brand name Suboxone, helps people with opioid addiction stay in recovery. But it is prescribed far more often to white drug users than to blacks.
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    Addiction Kills More Blacks, But Treatment Is Prescribed Mostly To Whites

    May 08, 2019
    A study looked at who gets prescriptions for buprenorphine, and found that white patients are almost 35 times as likely to get the lifesaving addiction treatment than African Americans.
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    Shots - Health News
    Dramatic decreases in deaths from lung cancer among African-Americans were particularly notable, according to the American Cancer Society.
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    Racial Disparities In Cancer Incidence And Survival Rates Are Narrowing

    Feb 14, 2019
    African-Americans still have the highest death rate and the lowest survival rate of any U.S. racial or ethnic group for most cancers. But the "cancer gap" between blacks and whites is shrinking.
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    Shots - Health News
    Demonstrators hold signs and chant in Richmond, Va., on Feb. 2. They were calling for the resignation of Gov. Ralph Northam after a racist photo on his medical school yearbook page came to light. He denies that he is in the photo but admits to once dress
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    Racist Med School Yearbook Photos? Medicine's Racism Problems Go Even Deeper

    Feb 11, 2019
    The media attention around a racist photo on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page sheds light on the larger problem of how racism affects medical care for African-Americans.
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    Shots - Health News
    Black men are twice as likely as whites to die from prostate cancer, one of the deadliest cancers that affect males.
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    Distrust Of Health Care System May Keep Black Men Away From Prostate Cancer Research

    Oct 17, 2018
    Black men are hit hardest by prostate cancer, but they are underrepresented in research. Researchers held focus groups in three states to understand why.
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    Shots - Health News
    Researchers are trying to understand why black and Latino children are more likely to die of certain cancers.
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    Why Are Black And Latino Kids More Likely To Die Of Certain Cancers?

    Aug 20, 2018
    There's a big survival gap between white and minority children when it comes to some childhood cancers. It turns out growing up in poverty explains a lot of the difference.
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    Racial And Ethnic Disparities Persist In Sudden Infant Deaths

    May 14, 2017
    Babies in Native American and Alaska Native families are at higher risk of sudden unexplained infant death, despite years of effort to reduce the toll. African-American families also face higher risk.
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    Knowing Someone Who Faced Discrimination May Affect Blood Pressure

    Dec 21, 2016
    Seeing someone close to you experience racial discrimination may have more of an effect on health than experiencing that discrimination yourself, a study finds.
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    Shots - Health News
    Lack of access to quality medical care remains a major factor in higher breast cancer death rates among African-Americans.
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    Breast Cancer Death Rates Are Down, But Racial Disparities Persist

    Oct 13, 2016
    Black women are more likely to die of breast cancer than are white women, and that's especially true for older women, the CDC reports. Lack of access to quality health care is a big factor.
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    Code Switch
    The discrimination that weighs down black people's wages begins before they're hired and continues long after.
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    Racial Disparities In Wages Boil Down To One Thing: Discrimination

    Sep 23, 2016
    A new study found that a major reason for the gap in wages between black and white workers is what's left over after controlling for variables like education and experience.

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