Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) A new nationwide study has established a clear link between exposure to pollution and COVID-19 death rates, finding coronavirus patients who live in areas with high levels of air pollution are more likely to die from the virus than those who live in communities with cleaner air.
Category: Health
Putting Black Empowerment to Emergency Use
Cooperation Jackson deploys its community production capacity to make masks during COVID-19. For a few years now, Kali Akuno has been on the receiving end of a fair amount of skepticism as to why Cooperation Jackson, the black empowerment and democracy collective he helped form in the middle of the “hood” in West Jackson, Mississippi,…
Anti-malarial Drug to be Tried on 3,000 COVID-19 Patients in Detroit Hospital: US Vice President
United States Vice President Mike Pence. (IANS) The anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine will be used in a trial covering 3,000 patients at a hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and the results will be tracked in a formal study, said US Vice President Mike Pence.
Rapper Waka Flocka Defends False Claim ‘Minorities Can’t Catch’ Coronavirus As Data Shows Otherwise
New data shows a surge of Black people not just contracting coronavirus but also dying of complications from it. Remember when rap music used to be known as the ghetto CNN for the way emcees kept the masses informed. Well, rapper Waka Flocka apparently wanted to make sure that everybody knew he was decidedly not…
Surgeon General warns African Americans at greater risk for coronavirus
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams US Surgeon General Jerome Adams had good and bad news Tuesday on the coronavirus pandemic, saying that initial death estimates could be too high but that African Americans were at greater risk of contracting the potentially deadly illness.
Two Sisters From Illinois Died Just 9 Days Apart From Coronavirus
Chicago, IL — Patricia Frieson, a 61-year old retired nurse from Illinois, was the first reported death from the coronavirus in the state. Just 9 days later, her older sister, 63-year old Wanda Bailey, also died from the virus.
