Support for breastfeeding mothers, especially BIPOC women, is integral to successful three-month rates and beyond. Calhoun County will see its first Baby Café, which will offer lactation help, camaraderie, and other services for free and on a drop-in
Today, a health equity expert discusses a recent drop in child vaccination rates. Then, owners of the landmark M Go Blue Barn let us in on recent plans to transform the space into a restaurant, and an Atlantic staff writer summarizes his recent profile of Representative Peter Meijer.
“I worry that we appropriately invested a lot in the discovery of the vaccine but not in the critical last steps of actually getting the vaccine into people’s arms,” says Dr. Megan Ranney.
A group of well-wishers gathered outside Pfizer’s Portage manufacturing facility this weekend to watch trucks carry out the country’s first doses of the coronavirus vaccine. These initial shipments mark an important turning point in America’s widespread inoculation campaign. The deployment of an effective vaccine to frontline healthcare workers is a welcome silver lining after months of struggle and hardship.
“Black and brown folks aren’t just distrustful from history. They have real things happening in the present.” Dr. Marijata Daniel-Echols, W.K. Kellogg Foundation