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Drew: Exposure to COVID-19 during Holidays–What’s Next Step?

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By Samuetta Hill Drew Travel and holiday gatherings in the midst of a pandemic with spiking COVID-19 numbers are two topics the medical and scientific...

Ellis: A long road ahead

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By Glenn Ellis “Let’s change the narrative around vaccine hesitancy in Black communities to focus on institutional trustworthiness.” -Uché Blackstock, MD- Well, here we are, 2020 has...

Dr. David Hicks: Myths about vaccines should not scare those who...

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By David Hicks, D.O. Jefferson County Department of Health There are several public health tools (e.g. social distancing, good hand hygiene, cough etiquette, wearing facial covering/masks,...

The Importance of Navigators to ‘All of Us’ Research

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Solomon Crenshaw Jr. For The Birmingham Times  The goal of the All of Us Research Program is to help researchers understand more about why people get sick or...

Drew: Safely celebrating Christmas during a pandemic

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By Samuetta Hill Drew The past safety articles have been sharing various suggestions on how one could celebrate the holidays safely during a pandemic.  Three...

Ellis: Keeping Safe for the Holidays

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After almost eight months of quarantine, face masks, and hand sanitizer, we are now in the middle of two unprecedented events: the COVID-19 pandemic...

UAB COVID-19 testing site changes appointment times

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UAB News UAB Medicine is making a time change to its current COVID-19 testing site. Testing will remain in its current location in the UAB Hospital-Highlands...

Surgeon General: Black Americans’ Distrust In Vaccine Comes From History Of...

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By Sanjana Karanth Black Voices U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Sunday addressed the general distrust of a COVID-19 vaccine among communities of color ― specifically Black...

Resources made available to protect Alabama towns from COVID-19

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By Jennifer Elmore doingmoretoday.com Two mayors. Two small Alabama towns. One hundred miles apart. And one common mission: protecting people from COVID-19. The moment you meet Vredenburgh Mayor Calvert...

Sharpe-Jefferson: Confessions of a struggling vegan at Christmas

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Who chooses to go vegan at “the most wonderful time of the year” - the only time we truly get “a day pass” to...