By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
Published April 29, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought issues of healthcare equity to the forefront of discussions of racial justice. Even when controlling for factors like age and income, communities of color have been much more severely impacted that white Americans.
A recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that “older Black, Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaska Native adults were nearly twice as likely to die of COVID-19 as older White adults,” and “cases among Black and Hispanic Medicare beneficiaries were 1.6 times higher than the rate observed among White beneficiaries.”
Guest columnist Richard Brunswick: Serial killer jailed; mass killer remains at large
Published: 4/16/2021 5:02:36 PM
In 1996 I was a doctor at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds. A cluster of deaths on a medical ward at the V.A. occurred and eventually a nurse, Kristen Gilbert, was charged, tried and convicted in 2001 of intentionally murdering four patients and attempting to murder two others at the V.A. She is now serving four consecutive life terms without parole, plus 20 years in a federal penitentiary in Texas.
Ms. Gilbert is an example of a serial killer, defined generally as someone who commits three or more murders over a period of at least one month, and who does so for personal psychological reasons.
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