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		<title>Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The United States has made almost no progress in closing racial health disparities despite promises, research shows. The government, some critics argue, is often the underlying culprit. By Fred Clasen-Kelly and Renuka Rayasam, KFF Health News KINGSTREE, S.C. — One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Scorching Truth: Extreme Heat is a Wake-Up Call to Act on Climate Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Heat waves cause or exacerbate a host of illnesses. Air quality is generally worse during extreme heat — a wake-up call to tackle the climate crisis head on.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why the CDC Has Recommended New COVID-19 Boosters for All</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 01:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyone over the age of 6 months should get the latest COVID-19 booster, not just high-risk groups, a federal expert panel recommends.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Polio Crept Back Into the U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 14:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The U.S. is seeing signs that the COVID-19 pandemic has opened up new vulnerabilities to diseases long in retreat such as polio, which is highly contagious and potentially deadly.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Boost Now or Wait? Many Wonder How to Ride Out Covid’s Next Wave</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Sam Whitehead and Arthur Allen Gwyneth Paige didn’t want to get vaccinated against covid-19 at first. With her health issues — hypertension, fibromyalgia, asthma — she wanted to see how other people fared after the shots. Then her mother got colon cancer. “At that point, I didn’t care if the vaccine killed me,” she [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2022: A New Year of Hope and Healing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2022 is the perfect time for Black women to embrace healing, hope and moving beyond the pandemic by protecting their mental health. 
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		<title>CDC Tracks Only a Fraction of Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2021 01:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The CDC mostly stopped tracking COVID-19 in vaccinated people, also known as breakthrough cases, unless the illness led to hospitalization or death.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>7 Back-to-School Tips Doctors Want You to Know About COVID-19</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 20:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Doctors offer parents back-to-school advice for students who are taking in-person classes and participating in extracurricular activities during the pandemic.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pandemic Shows Black Americans Among Groups at Higher Risk for Suicide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2021 20:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Aneri Pattani August 23, 2021 This story is a collaboration between KHN and “Science Friday.” Listen to the conversation between KHN national correspondent Aneri Pattani and John Dankosky, Science Friday’s director of news and radio projects. Rafiah Maxie has been a licensed clinical social worker in the Chicago area for a decade. Throughout that time, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Black Women Come Up Short on Funds and Food in COVID-19 Pandemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How Village Minds Addresses a National Crisis, One Bag of Groceries at a Time By Marissa Evans Natia Simone will never forget the pained look on the older woman’s face when she found out the Jewel grocery store wasn’t open. It was the last week of May, and Chicago neighborhoods were still reeling from the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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