[Healthcare\Medicine]
Callinan: “As the nation grapples to contain and treat patients with COVID-19, we’re rethinking how we care for people with other serious or terminal illnesses…medicine must adapt accordingly.”
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CHICAGO MAYOR FINDS RACIAL IMPACT OF COVID-19 “EXTREMELY TROUBLING”
[COVID-19\Chicago]
Through Sunday, April 5, 1,824 Black Chicagoans…had been diagnosed with COVID-19…72% of the city’s deaths have been among Black Chicagoans, though Black Chicagoans make up just 30% of the city’s population.
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AFRICAN-AMERICANS DYING AT HIGH RATES OF COVID-19
[COVID-19\African-Americans]
The coronavirus entered Milwaukee from a white, affluent suburb. Then it took root in the city’s black community and erupted.
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COVID-19 MAKES IT CLEAR HEALTHCARE IS A RIGHT
[COVID-19\American Healthcare]
Rev. Jackson: “The U.S. spends about twice as much per capita for its patchwork health-care system than most industrialized countries. Why were we caught with such shortages of masks, ventilators or hospital beds?”
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DEMOCRATS: FUNDING COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS VITAL IN BATTLING COVID-19
[COVID-19\Community Health Centers]
CHCs should receive “the highest levels of funding…Community Health Centers are at the frontlines of this crisis.”
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NURSES DEMAND IMMEDIATE TESTING OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS FOR COVID-19
[COVIDE-19 Testing\Nurses]
Hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers on the frontline of the COVID-19 outbreak are yet to be tested, despite reports of waves of infections.
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COULD A CUBAN DRUG BE THE ANSWER TO COVID-19?
[Future Hope Column]
“The Cuban pharmaceutical industry guaranteed Saturday the production of the 22 drugs used for the treatment of the COVID-19 coronavirus, especially Interferon Alpha 2B, which has proven to be very effective in fighting the disease.”
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CALIFORNIA CONGRESSWOMAN HAILS HOUSE PASSAGE OF “FAMILIES FIRST CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE ACT”
[Families First Coronavirus Response Act\H.R. 6201]
Families First Coronavirus Response Act, a robust federal spending package to address the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
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HOUSE DEMOCRATIC CHAIRS ISSUE STATEMENTS ON TRUMP’S CORONAVIRUS NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION
[COVID-19\Coronavirus\FEMA]
Rep. Peter DeFazio: “This emergency declaration will finally bring FEMA to the table to help coordinate the Federal response to the coronavirus pandemic.”
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“AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM” IS PROVING TO BE FALSE AMID CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
[COVID-19\Coronavirus\ SARS-1SARS-CoV2]
“Apparently, having missed the bullet of SARS-1, politicians and ‘leaders’ in their arrogance and ignorance, a deadly combination, decided what America needed, on top of its nuclear arsenal capable of killing every human being several times over, was more nuclear weapons.”
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