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This Work Group will coordinate the efforts of community leaders in Orange County.

Members

Alzona J anamariedelarosa Angelia TD Aretha S Barbara SH Bryce G
Casandra S Cynthia H Darion H David P Debra M Debreita T
Dr Sydel Dr. White el_reverendo Jan Booher Jessica B Jonathan B
Kathy Gilbeaux Kimberly T Latrece J LGelzer Luis B MD Community Captain
mdmcdonald MDMcDonald_me_com Shaniqua R Shena R Stella L Tanya D
themammaj@gmail.com Trish M Yidaa G

Email address for group

cflracorangecoleadership@m.resiliencesystem.org

Genome sequencing of sewage detects regionally prevalent SARS-CoV-2 variants

Note: This contnt is from a pre-print that has not yet been certified by peer review.

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THE COLOR OF CORONAVIRUS: COVID-19 DEATHS BY RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE U.S.

Our latest update reveals that Black and Indigenous Americans continue to suffer the greatest losses—with both groups now experiencing a COVID-19 death toll exceeding 1 in 800 nationally. And for the first time since we began tracking these data, the Indigenous rate exceeds the rate for Blacks.

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Pfizer Vaccination iFact Sheet for Recipients and Caregivers

Florida is receiving Pfizer vaccines that will fist be made available to health care workers, the elderly in long term care facilities, first responders and those in congregate living situations like corrections institutions. The fact sheet provided for Recipients and Caregivers is HERE.

Clean Electric Bus Upgrades For Schools Across Florida

This is a great opportunity for all of our communities suffering from air pollution and high asthma rates:

Clean Electric Bus Upgrades For Schools Across Florida

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection recently announced that school districts in Florida’s most polluted and populous regions are eligible to apply for $57 million to replace diesel-fueled school buses with clean electric buses. The funds come from Florida’s share of a settlement between the U.S. EPA and Volkswagen after the carmaker was found to have cheated on emissions requirements. Of the $166 million in funding allocated to Florida, 70% of funds will be allocated to school, transit, and shuttle bus upgrades.

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Public Private Partnerships and COVID Response

Of interest to our group:

Public–Private Partnership Responses to COVID-19 and Future Pandemics: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief (2020)

Chapter: PublicPrivate Partnership Responses to COVID-19 and Future Pandemics: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief

 

Read at this link: https://www.nap.edu/read/25999/chapter/1

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Amid Coronavirus: Black Mistrust of Medicine Looms

Just as the new coronavirus was declared a global pandemic, gym members in New York City frantically called the fitness center where Rahmell Peebles worked, asking him to freeze their memberships.

Peebles, a 30-year-old black man who's skeptical of what he hears from the news media and government, initially didn't see the need for alarm over the virus.

"I felt it was a complete hoax," Peebles said. "This thing happens every two or four years. We have an outbreak of a disease that seems to put everybody in a panic."

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Bad Medicine: The Harm That Comes From Racism

 

Racial discrimination has shaped so many American institutions that perhaps it should be no surprise that health care is among them. Put simply, people of color receive less care — and often worse care — than white Americans.

Reasons includes lower rates of health coverage; communication barriers; and racial stereotyping based on false beliefs.

Predictably, their health outcomes are worse than those of whites.

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