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The 1910 Flexner report commissioned by the @AmerMedicalAssn is partly to blame. The report led to the closure of 13 historically Black medical schools. It’s projected that if 5 of

An unvaccinated health care worker set off a Covid-19 outbreak at a nursing home where the vast majority of residents had been vaccinated, leading to dozens of infections, including 22

Rapid antigen testing is a game changer. After spending the last 7 months performing PCR testing with anywhere from 3-14 day turnaround, it’s satisfying to actually have results with a

A new nationwide poll by @TheUndefeated and the Kaiser Family Foundation (@KFF ) found that 7 in 10 African Americans believe that they are treated unfairly based on race or

A STAT investigation found that a common method of using analytics software to target medical services to patients who need them most is infusing racial bias into decision-making about who

A child born in a mostly Black census tract bordering the Cleveland Clinic, sponsor of tonight's presidential debate, has a life expectancy 22 years shorter than a child in a

*ICYMI*: Yesterday, this administration expanded its ban on diversity and antiracism trainings to include federal contracts. Official document linked below, but here are a few of the highlights.1/ THREAD.https://www.npr.org/2020/09/22/91584

I’ve been mulling this over so here goes. Last week, @elemental came out with a list of 50 pandemic experts to trust. I was on that list, as well as

Beyond devastated at the suffering and loss of this beautiful human being. Reminded of the critical work of colleagues like Dr. Renee Williams around racial health inequities in colorectal cancer.

New data out today show Black Americans continue to die from #coronavirus at the highest rates. • 1 in 1,250 Black • 1 in 1,500 Indigenous • 1 in 1,700

The phase 1 @moderna_tx #coronavirus vaccine results gave me a little hope today, but then I looked at the racial and ethnic demographic breakdown of the subjects... and then thought

1) Since the pandemic started, people have been saying science has been politicized by this administration as if this is something new. Science *is* and has always been political, especially