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NYC Muslims Made Plans For COVID-19 Vaccinations During Ramadan—Then Came The J&J Pause


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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio visits with religious leaders of the Muslim community at a pop-up vaccine site in The Bronx.
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A sudden federal halt to the one-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has dampened hopes among NYC Muslim leaders who were planning for a substantial vaccination push during Ramadan.
Universal eligibility for the vaccines arrived not long before Muslim New Yorkers welcomed Ramadan on April 12th. Religious leaders and the city had debuted pop-up vaccination sites at three mosques, ICNA Markaz and Jamaica Muslim Center in Queens and Al-Masjidu Adam in the Bronx. Each mosque had its own rules on securing a vaccine from simply walking in to filling out google forms. ....

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Trying To Assess COVID's Impact On Arab-American Communities Is Complicated


Dr. Hassan Bencheqroun, an interventional pulmonary and critical care physician, has seen firsthand the impact of COVID-19 on Arab communities in the San Diego area.
Dr. Hassan Fehmi started his podcast, Arab American Cafe, in October 2020 because he felt like Arab American perspectives were not widely represented in the podcasting industry. Initially, the English and Arabic conversations focused on politics, but soon enough they started talking about the pandemic and other health care issues affecting the community.
My partner and I are healthcare professionals, so it only made sense that we start talking about health care, says Fehmi, a nephrologist and specialist in kidney disease based in Dearborn, Mich., home to the country s highest concentration of Arab American communities. We were actually able to share with our audience some of the relevant information about COVID. ....

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