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February 17, 2021
By Michele Learner
We know that COVID-19 is not “equal opportunity.” People who contract the virus and people who die are disproportionately people of color, particularly Black people. The data available so far illustrate clearly how the pandemic affects different racial groups differently.
A recent Bread for the World Institute resource, “Racially Equitable Responses to COVID-19,” explains how systemic racism causes such inequitable outcomes. Some of the aspects of racism that most affect both hunger and COVID-19 are job segregation, residential segregation, inequitable access to health care, and interpersonal racism.
Late in 2020, as the release of COVID-19 vaccines was on the horizon and then as the United States began the monumental task of vaccinating as many people as possible, several organizations began efforts to track data on access to vaccines and then use this information to develop ways to advance racial equity.
Merck Announces Second Cohort of Safer Childbirth Cities Organizations Committed to Improving Maternal Health Equity and Reducing Preventable Maternal Deaths in the US
Merck known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today its funding support of a second cohort of nine city-based projects across the country expanding its Safer Childbirth Cities initiative to additional communities that have a high burden of maternal mortality and morbidity to help improve maternal health outcomes and reduce racial inequities in care. The newly selected projects will focus on … Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today its funding support of a second cohort of nine city-based projects across the country expanding its Safer Childbirth Cities initiative to additional communities that have a high burden of maternal mortality and morbidity to help improve maternal health outcomes and reduce racial inequities in care. The newly selected
Death rate for N.J. Black women after pregnancy is among nation’s worst. Tammy Murphy has ideas to change that.
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Ajanee McConnell complained the pain was severe and persistent, yet her obstetrician assured her that prenatal discomfort was normal and her unborn son would be fine.
McConnell said she “suppressed her intuition” and forged ahead. But 19 weeks into her pregnancy, she went into labor. Her son died three days after he was delivered by emergency cesarean section two years ago, McDonnell tearfully told an online audience of 700 on Monday.
“I share my story so that other young Black mothers know that their voices deserve to be heard and when you think something is wrong, don’t let anyone silence you,” said McConnell, 23, of Parsippany.
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In New Jersey, a Black woman is seven times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than a white woman, and a Black baby is three times more likely to die in the first year of life than a while baby racial disparities that Tammy Snyder Murphy, the state s first lady, said she hoped to correct with an ambitious plan announced Monday.
The plan, the latest part of her signature Nurture NJ campaign, aims to go far beyond educating health care providers to be better listeners and more respectful of the needs of their Black patients, though that is an important step, she said.