Although public health officials have been at pains to explain the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective for people from all racial groups, people of color have valid concerns about racism in medicine. Healthcare outcomes are worse for people of color, who receive worse care than white patients.
Hampton Roads Animal Shelters Find Homes For Pets, Despite Pandemic
Details Published: 31 December 2020
Precious, the 12-year-old white cockatoo who lives at the Peninsula SPCA, misses the stream of visitors he used to play with.
“He s used to people coming in and looking in his window and really just kind of being a superstar,” said the shelter’s communications director Jodi Dean. “All he’s got is the staff now and we noticed about a month and he was really getting lonely. So we take him out more often.”
Precious will never be up for adoption. Cockatoos like him can live to be 70 years old, likely outliving any human companion he will have.
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