#Inequities

Sudipta Saha

shudeepto_saha

I'll keep repeating this again and again, but the pandemic **DOES NOT** affect all equally. Especially to those in Canada, where data remains unavailable and where a provincial Chief Medical

Rhea Boyd MD, MPH

RheaBoydMD

Is everyone reading this??!I gotta break down this science real quick. This study compared COVID-19 mortality rates by racial/ethnic group AND age. It found: Among folks aged 35-44, Black people

Guttmacher Institute

Guttmacher

Poor maternal health outcomes have been front & center in the US during recent years—with good reason: Rates of maternal mortality in the US are among the worst of high-income

NBC News

NBCNews

Why did so many New Yorkers with COVID-19 wait until it was too late to call an ambulance?Many patients were from ZIP codes where underlying health issues are common, but

Empire State Indivisible

es_indivisible

THREAD: Today, as we’ve done every Saturday for almost a year, organizers from across the state gathered to build power and deliver a New York State where all can prosper.

United Way of L.A.

LAUnitedWay

At yesterday’s meeting, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted to put #ReimagineLA on the ballot in November and give voters the chance to implement a budget that puts communities

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley

RepPressley

TODAY: @SenBooker and I re-introduced the MOMMIES Act to expand Medicaid coverage for birthing people & promote community-based, holistic approaches to maternity care.Every pregnant person should be listened to and

Allison Dikanovic

Al_Dikanovic

Milwaukee voters and organizers are worried about disenfranchisement, especially of black and brown people, heading into Wisconsin's pandemic election. More here. Check it out.https://milwaukeenns.org/2020/04/06/concerns-of-disenfranchisement-int

Dr. Peter A Singer, OC

PeterASinger

#COVID19 has shown us that leadership matters! I have been reflecting on effective leadership attributes. Here are my initial thoughts. What do you think? Truthfulness — leaders valorize science,

#MuseumWorkersSpeak

MuseumWorkers

Update Last week, we held a lottery to award 10 more $500 payments from the #MuseumWorkersFund. That brings our total pay out to $65,000 in mutual aid to colleagues who

🌲 sydnee wagner 🌲

sydneeisanelf

If you’re participating in #ShareYourShakespeare or celebrating Shakespeare’s work, cool! But I urge everyone to also reflect on Shakespeare’s racial politics, the harmful racial ideologies of early modern England, and

iris soleil delgado

irisdelistmo

I just finished reading Racism: Science & Tools, and thought I'd share a summary of Chapter 12: Why Epidemiologists Must Reckon with Racism. Our field cannot continue to disengage with

Matt Manierre

ManierreS

#medsoc #epitwitter #blacklivesmatter Been thinking about @DebUmberson 's paper "Black Deaths Matter" (https://tinyurl.com/qvo44jz ) in 2017, which points out that the black community has always borne more exposure to death

NPR

NPR

1/ "Racial covenants" — language barring non-white people from buying or living in a property — were attached to tens of thousands of homes in Minneapolis.That helped create a foundation

Steve LeVine

stevelevine

28 years ago, in the first case of its kind, a bystander shot a video that captured the brutal police beating of Rodney King. Corporate America swooped in with vows

David Leonhardt

DLeonhardt

The country’s cities — historically the nation’s engines of opportunity — often exacerbate inequities today. We've got charts. (1/n)https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/13/opinion/inequality-cities-life-expectancy.html The average life exp