@PeachMcD @reuters @FAIR

COVID vaccines are free in the United States.

Even if they were not, perhaps your outrage might be expressed in some way other than helping to elect an unabashedly white supremacist regime, one that literally boasted, on national television, about forcing its own citizens in blue states to die from #COVID.

#Election2024
#MedicalRacism #CovidIsNotOver

https://investors.modernatx.com/Statements--Perspectives/Statements--Perspectives-Details/2023/Modernas-Commitment-to-Patient-Access-in-the-United-States/default.aspx

https://www.statnews.com/2022/11/18/pfizer-ceo-says-covid-vaccine-will-remain-free-for-all-americans-overlooking-indirect-costs/

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Institutional racism and lack of cultural competency behind deaths of three Aboriginal women
A coronial inquest has identified that institutional racism and a lack of cultural competency from health services were behind the deaths of three Aboriginal women in the remote Indigenous community of Doomadgee in north-west Queensland.

The coroner, Nerida Wilson, identified that the deaths of Doomadgee residents, Adele Sandy, 18, in 2019, Yvette Booth, 17, in 2020 and Shakaya George, 27, in 2020 were caused by complications due to rheumatic heart disease and, with proper and adequate care, could have been avoided.

In her 137-page report, Wilson identified a lack of collaboration between health services in Doomadgee, a failure to provide adequate care and a lack of “cultural competency” had led to a, “complete and fundamental breakdown of trust” between the community and the health providers servicing them.

She concluded that health services need “resetting” and that the inquest “... brought out the very worst and best in all involved. Without exception, all involved, individuals and organisations, have acknowledged the circumstances of the deaths and identified the gaps... All say they want to do better.”

Providers have a clear role resetting health services and health care delivery while ceasing to be complicit in the injustices and inequities in healthcare systems.

#Indigenous #Aboriginal #MedicalRacism #racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism

Last Week Tonight did a great episode on Bias in Medicine, and looked specifically at Medical Racism (featuring Wanda Sykes)

Every single person should watch this.

Especially if you're white or white skinned.

We need to be better.

https://youtu.be/TATSAHJKRd8
(portion on medical racism starts from 8.06)

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #MedicalRacism

Reading this Wingfield and Chavez (2020) article on how experiences of racism in medicine (among Black providers/workers) vary by social location

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0003122419894335

and reflecting once again on how, when I gave birth a year ago, I was in the hospital for one entire week and in that time, every single nurse I interacted with was white and every single tech (nurse's assistant, other jobs I don't know the title of) except one was a person of color.

#sociology #sociodon #med #MedicalRacism

@ThatAuntie
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

And the doctors are always stumped! It's just so unfortunate because of #MedicalRacism we have to work harder at healing ourselves.

Black Women Are Fighting to Be Recognized as Long COVID Patients
https://time.com/5954132/black-women-long-covid/

#LongCovid #MECFS #MedicalRacism