Groups across the country urging minorities communities to be vaccinated
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey from December, 52% of Black Americans said they would “wait and see”. Author: Matt Yurus (12News) Updated: 6:13 PM MST April 17, 2021
PHOENIX Medical and religious groups across the country are urging people in minority communities to get vaccinated against COVID-19 despite anxieties. Some are working toward that goal right here in Phoenix.
To help make people more comfortable with the vaccines, Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Alyssa Chapital says community leaders and families must set a great example.
“Because people see others going through the vaccination process, they see role models in the community, that they respect and follow, getting a vaccine,” she said.
PHOENIX â From the importance of personal protective equipment to dealing with the harsh isolation of quarantined patients, the medical community learned countless lessons during the first year of COVID-19, a pandemic unprecedented in modern times.
âLimiting it to one (lesson), it is how profound it is that social inequity kills people,â said Dr. Andrew Badley, infectious diseases specialist and head of the COVID-19 Research Task Force at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Badley was joined virtually by a panel of Mayo specialists, to reflect on the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the medical community and their hospitalsâ response, sharing lessons they learned along the way.
Pandemic exposes social inequities, creates backlogs of care, Mayo specialists say Over the past year, COVID-19 testing sites proliferated across Arizona, including this one at ASU’s Tempe campus. (Source: Cronkite News) By Samantha Molina | February 5, 2021 at 1:29 PM MST - Updated February 5 at 1:30 PM
PHOENIX – From the importance of personal protective equipment to dealing with the harsh isolation of quarantined patients, the medical community learned countless lessons during the first year of COVID-19, a pandemic unprecedented in modern times.
“Limiting it to one (lesson), it is how profound it is that social inequity kills people,” said Dr. Andrew Badley, infectious diseases specialist and head of the COVID-19 Research Task Force at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Mayo Clinic doctors share what they have learned one year into the pandemic
ROCHESTER, Minn. (FOX 9) - We are now one year into the pandemic and leading doctors at the Mayo Clinic have learned a lot about what has worked and what needs to improve.
Dr. Andrew Badley is Mayo Clinic’s COVID-19 taskforce chair. He says one of the biggest discoveries they’ve made is that antibody treatments from therapies like convalescent plasma actually work.
Mayo Clinic doctors share what they have learned one year into the pandemic
We are now one year into the pandemic and leading doctors at the Mayo Clinic have learned a lot about what has worked and what needs to improve.