Communities of Color and Other Buyers, Beware of Bold Promises from Health Insurers
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
Published May 6, 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.”
WORLD S STRONGEST GRANDMA
Powerlifting champ, 71, who spends 20 hours a week lifting weights hits back at claims she’s ‘too old’ to be at the gym
Amy Reast
Updated: May 1 2021, 21:25 ET
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MEET ONE of the world s toughest grandmas - an international powerlifting champ who says she looks and feels better than she did 30 years ago.
Mary Duffy, 71, took up gym work outs aged 59 in a bid to lose weight, and soon got hooked on lifting weights.
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she got the courage to enter her first powerlifting competition in 2014, aged 64Credit: Courtesy Image
Now she spends around 20 hours a week pumping iron and exercising, and has more than 30 state and world records to her name.
UN Tribunal Split Could Signal End of Case Against Former KR Navy Commander
Legal experts say renewed divisions between international and Cambodian court members will likely result in dismissal of the case against Meas Muth.
02 May 2021
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Legal experts say renewed divisions between international and Cambodian court members will likely result in dismissal of the case against Meas Muth.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. The United Nations-supported tribunal in Cambodia went through another round of internal wrangling in April when international and Cambodian court members again publicly disagreed over a decision to try the former Khmer Rouge Navy Commander Meas Muth.
EBONY, the iconic brand serving as the leading voice of the Black American experience for 75 years, has announced that Marielle Bobo has been tapped as Editor-in-Chief &
April 30, 2021
Grant County, most of NM turn ‘turquoise’ today Written by Geoffrey Plant on April 30, 2021
Starting today, 24 New Mexico counties including Grant County will transition to the turquoise level of risk under the state’s revised “Red to Green” framework for determining public health restrictions across the state.
During a COVID-19 press update with health officials Wednesday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced changes to the metrics used to determine color-coded levels of risk associated with the coronavirus. The framework now incorporates county vaccination rates, along with tweaks meant to accommodate the impact that vaccinations have on test positivity rates and new daily case counts, and will be updated on a weekly basis. Actual changes to the color-coded map that defines restrictions across the state will continue to be announced every other week.