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Health equity measure aims to protect communities. Will small businesses pay the price?

October 14, 2020

For public health leaders and community advocates across the Bay Area, California’s new health equity metric, which aims to tackle coronavirus disparities in communities of color, is a forward-thinking plan that will aid those hardest hit by the virus.

Health equity measure aims to protect communities. Will small businesses pay the price?

A general view of the Mission District along 24th Street is seen in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020.

Health equity measure aims to protect communities. Will small businesses pay the price?

Ricardo Peña, owner of Mixcoatl Handicrafts & Jewelry, pulls a cart of merchandise from his shop of 17 years to a parklet that just reopened for a week since the COVID-19 pandemic on 24th and South Van Ness in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020.

Health equity measure aims to protect communities. Will small businesses pay the price?

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Black Communities Need Access to Healthy Food

October 13, 2020

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One person standing up for food justice can cause a domino effect.

Historically, oppression and systemic injustices have been a collective experience among Black people living in the United States.

The United States was built on indigenous land on the backs of Black people. This is not new information. Yet, this inherited trauma is still influencing our present-day lives.

Simply put, what’s required to be well and thrive aren’t available for all Black people.

Foods that are commonly associated with Black American culture are often unfairly deemed as unhealthy.

Today’s fast-food versions of fried chicken and cured meats are a distant cousin of the delicacies that were enjoyed on special occasions throughout the old agricultural south.

Home cooks of the past were creative and seasoned greens with the ends of cured meats or slow cooked the less desirable cuts because this is what they had access to.

It’s no accident

California’s health equity measure aims to protect communities vulnerable to the coronavirus. But will small businesses pay the price?

October 13, 2020

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For public health leaders and community advocates across the Bay Area, California’s new health equity metric, which aims to tackle coronavirus disparities in communities of color, is a forward-thinking plan that will aid those hardest hit by the virus.

But for business owners like Danielle Rabkin, the metric is a potential new roadblock in a year full of them. Rabkin’s business is on the brink of closure. After months of uncertainty and evaporating revenue, she was allowed to reopen her San Francisco gym, CrossFit Golden Gate in September, at limited indoor capacity.

A few weeks later, the state came out with the new health equity metric rule, adding another layer in determining when counties may advance reopening and roll back shelter-in-place restrictions, according to the state’s color-coded, tiered system for assessment.

San Francisco County didn’t meet the equity metric required for advancement to a less-restrictive tier last week, the state’s

Excess deaths from COVID-19, community bereavement, restorative justice for communities of color

October 12, 2020

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What The Article Says: Ways the COVID-19 pandemic has compounded existing health, human rights and economic disparities in communities of color are discussed in this Viewpoint, which also proposes a program of restorative justice in response, comprising investments in education and housing, reforms in lending practices and criminal justice, and more.

Authors: Lisa A. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity in Baltimore, is the corresponding author.

To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/

(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19567)

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Minnesota Community Care Adds Two Directors to Advance Its Commitment to Disrupting Health Inequities in Communities It Serves

October 12, 2020

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Minnesota Community Care, the state’s largest federally qualified health center, announced the appointment of two new directors to its senior leadership team, each with deep experience working and advocating for the health and well-being of communities disproportionately impacted by social, structural, and political determinants of health.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201012005617/en/

Cindy Nelson Kaigama joins Minnesota Community Care as Director of Innovation and Learning (Photo: Business Wire)

“Our leadership team is stronger for the addition of these key leaders,” says Reuben Moore, CEO of Minnesota Community Care. “Cindy Kaigama and Rubén Vázquez each bring critical experience and expertise to our work of strengthening the well-being of our communities through health care for all.”

Cindy Nelson Kaigama will serve as Director of Innovation and Learning, and Rubén Vázquez Ruiz as Director of Equity and Inclusion.

Kaigama is a champion of health and education equity with

Therapist and advocate True Thao focuses on the mental health of Minnesota’s refugee communities

October 12, 2020

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When the Minnesota Department of Human Services emailed True Thao to tell him he’d been chosen to receive an Outstanding Refugee Award, he first thought it was some kind of a scam.

“I wasn’t sure what to make of it,” Thao admitted with a laugh. “There is so much on the internet these days that’s not true. I actually thought someone was playing a prank on me.”

True didn’t respond for several days, until he heard from Jaime Ballard, one of his colleagues at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Family Social Science immigrant and refugee research team.

“Then I knew it was the truth,” he said. “I finally responded to the email and said, ‘Thank you. And I’m humbled.’”

This kind of response is in keeping with the generally humble approach that Thao has taken for the more than two decades that he has

Health officials recommend against trick-or-treat, but some Milwaukee-area communities have set trick-or-treat times. Here’s what we know.

October 12, 2020

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North Shore Health Department Halloween guidance

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends against door-to-door trick-or-treating this year, calling it a “higher-risk” activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services includes house-to-house trick-or-treating in a list of activities to avoid this year, along with large outdoor gatherings and indoor parties.

Some local health departments have followed suit.

Get daily updates on the Packers during the season.

For example, “The North Shore Health Department recommends that communities not schedule village or city-wide trick-or-treat events this year to avoid large gatherings of children and families.”

Many neighborhoods that usually hold massive trick-or-treat gatherings have canceled this year, and some localities, including Milwaukee and Shorewood, have decided not to schedule community trick-or-treat times.

Health officials recommend safer pandemic-era celebrations this year such as:

virtual costume contests
scary movie-watching with Halloween snacks within individual

Taraji P. Henson Wants to End Stigma Around Mental Health in Black Communities

October 9, 2020

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A couple of years ago, Taraji P. Henson was searching — and struggling — to find a therapist for herself and her son.

“It was hard finding therapists who were culturally competent,” the actress told ‘Marie Claire” editor-in-chief Sally Holmes. “It’s not that they don’t exist. But pooling them together and finding them is quite daunting.”

The conversation was hosted via “Marie Claire’s” invite-only Power On Summit. The now virtual gathering included conversations from Gabrielle Union, Vanessa Pappas, Stephanie Ruhle and many more. Henson’s headline talk was a frank discussion about mental health and revealed why she decided to launch The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation with her best friend. The actress and producer saw a demand for an organization that seeks to eradicate the stigma around mental health issues specifically in the Black community.

“We have trust issues when it comes to the medical industry, especially when it comes to

White House Outbreak May Have Spread Coronavirus To Other Communities : Shots

October 9, 2020

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Numerous people have tested positive after attending an event in the Rose Garden at the White House on Sept. 26 to announce the nomination of Seventh U.S. Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

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Numerous people have tested positive after attending an event in the Rose Garden at the White House on Sept. 26 to announce the nomination of Seventh U.S. Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

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The White House’s apparent failures to thoroughly contact trace its current coronavirus outbreak has led local health officers to take matters into their own hands.

The District of Columbia and nine neighboring jurisdictions are calling on White House staff and visitors who might be connected to the recent outbreak there to contact their local health departments.

“We recommend that if you have worked

MA Town-By-Town Coronavirus Stats: 40 High-Risk Communities

October 8, 2020

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MASSACHUSETTS — Forty communities were designated high-risk in the new town-by-town data released by the state Wednesday, up from 23 the week before. Positive test rates rose in over half of the state’s 351 communities.

The positive test rate over the last two weeks increased in 176— or 50.1 percent — of the 351 communities in the state. The rate fell in 68 — or 19.4 percent — communities and held steady in the remaining 148.

State rules mean that high-risk communities, plus others that were high-risk in the last two updates, cannot move on to the next phase of reopening. Towns were marked high-risk, or red, if they reported more than eight confirmed COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents over the past two weeks.

With Wednesday’s update, Dedham, Monson and Plainville cleared the required three weeks without being marked high-risk, and can move forward. A number of other communities were

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Health equity measure aims to protect communities. Will small businesses pay the price?

Health equity measure aims to protect communities. Will small businesses pay the price?

Health equity measure aims to protect communities. Will small businesses pay the price?

Health equity measure aims to protect communities. Will small businesses pay the price?

Black Communities Need Access to Healthy Food

California’s health equity measure aims to protect communities vulnerable to the coronavirus. But will small businesses pay the price?

Excess deaths from COVID-19, community bereavement, restorative justice for communities of color

Minnesota Community Care Adds Two Directors to Advance Its Commitment to Disrupting Health Inequities in Communities It Serves

Therapist and advocate True Thao focuses on the mental health of Minnesota’s refugee communities

Taraji P. Henson Wants to End Stigma Around Mental Health in Black Communities

White House Outbreak May Have Spread Coronavirus To Other Communities : Shots

MA Town-By-Town Coronavirus Stats: 40 High-Risk Communities