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Sylvie Naar says when she found out her team received a $3 million NIH grant, she was in tears "because it was like we were actually getting funded to do something about racism in the world."
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A recent analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation revealed the pandemic has widened existing disparities in health and well-being as well as in academic performance between children of color and white children.
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During the pandemic, many of the youngest Americans have fallen behind socially, academically and emotionally in ways that could harm their physical and mental health for years.
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The church, in the College Hill neighborhood of Tampa, vaccinated 590 people with their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
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Until a vaccine can be more widely distributed, doctors are urging people to keep wearing masks and social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
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Among the bottom fifth of income earners, who are more likely to be black and Latino, about 35% of them lost their jobs.
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In a study of the early coronavirus epidemic in the U.S., a third of people who were hospitalized were African American. Top risk factors were high blood pressure and obesity.
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African-American women are more likely to lose a baby in the first year of life than women of any other race. Scientists think that stress from racism makes their bodies and babies more vulnerable.