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Sen. Mary Daugherty Abrams, D-Meriden, center, championed passage Tuesday of the bill declaring racism a public health crisis.
The state Senate voted Tuesday to declare racism a public health crisis and convene a panel to study the effect of racism on health care.
The declaration was part of an omnibus bill that also calls for better data collection on race and ethnicity in health care, requires hospitals to conduct implicit bias training for employees who provide direct care to pregnant or postpartum women, mandates that the public health commissioner study the development of a recruitment and retention program for state health care workers who are people of color, and directs the health department to explore whether to create a certification process for doulas.
Debra Furr-Holden, associate dean for Public Health Integration at Michigan State University, answers questions about resuming the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. She is also the director of the Flint Center for Health Equity Solutions, funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities; and she was appointed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to be a member of the Michigan Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities.
The vaccine is much safer than contracting COVID-19. To put this in perspective, out of 7-million doses of the J&J vaccine administered, less than 20 people developed clots. As an epidemiologist who studies health risks, I agree with medical colleagues across the world who agree the vaccine has proven to be safe and the clots that have occurred are extremely rare. We monitor adverse reactions on an ongoing basis from all of the currently available vaccines to make sure we understand and can minimize any risks.
These CT communities have declared racism a public health crisis
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It’s been nearly a year since the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer spurred a nationwide movement to address racial inequities.
The issue is still being discussed at the municipal level, and in Connecticut, there has been a push to declare racism a public health crisis.
According to the advocacy group Health Equity Solutions, which aims for “every Connecticut resident to attain optimal health regardless of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status,” Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford and Middletown are among the list of about 20 municipalities that have signed on to the resolution.
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