By Brandon McCoy, Chalkbeat This year’s high school seniors lost half of their seventh-grade year to COVID school closures. They finished middle school either virtually or attending school in person while wearing masks and sitting six feet from their peers. These students started kindergarten in 2013 — the year after the Sandy Hook massacre. Lockdown drills became almost […]
By Amber Dance | Center for Health Journalism Black people feel left out of weight-loss drug craze. Weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic have rapidly surged in popularity, but the benefits aren’t being distributed equally, reports Anissa Durham in a Word In Black–STAT collaboration. “Many Black Americans … worry that their community is being left behind,” Durham […]
By Selen Ozturk | January 9, 2024 | Ethnic Media Services A surging “tripledemic” of COVID-19, flu and RSV threatens to overburden an already burdened U.S. healthcare system. At a Friday, January 5 briefing co-hosted by Ethnic Media Services and Blue Shield of California Foundation, medical experts discussed tripledemic predictions; the newest JN.1 strain of […]