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PCs for People is offering 10,000 free computers and hotspots to Cuyahoga County residents
PCs for People is offering 10,000 free computers and hotspots to Cuyahoga County residents by Collin Cunningham, The Land (Plain Press, December 2020) As part of their continued collaboration with Cleveland Public Library to provide digital resources to local families, PCs for People is offering 10,000 free computers and hotspots to qualified Cuyahoga County residents who need…
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Cleveland Metropolitan School District shares information on COVID-19 planning and budget projections at Board of Education meeting
Cleveland Metropolitan School District shares information on COVID-19 planning and budget projections at Board of Education meeting (Plain Press, December 2020) Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) Chief Executive Officer Eric Gordon shared information with the Board of Education at its November 17th meeting on the administration’s planning to manage COVID-19. Gordon said CMSD plans to announce their…
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Neighborhood Family Practice awarded over $350,000 from Three Arches Foundation
Neighborhood Family Practice awarded over $350,000 from Three Arches Foundation (Plain Press, December 2020) On November 18th, Neighborhood Family Practice announced that it was the recipient of two grant awards totaling $356,202 from the Three Arches Foundation. The first is part of a joint award with Barton Senior Center and Lakewood Senior Citizens Service Corp to…
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Historical mistreatment, modern-day disparities make Black Americans less likely to trust COVID-19 care, vaccine
Historical mistreatment, modern-day disparities make Black Americans less likely to trust COVID-19 care, vaccine by Afi Scruggs and Rachel Dissell (Plain Press, November 2020) Two days before Carmen Bailey fell ill with COVID-19 in late April, she told her daughter not to take her to the hospital if she ever got the disease. As her symptoms…
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Researchers turn to HIV/AIDS clinical trial network for help in building Black Clevelanders’ trust in COVID-19 studies
Researchers turn to HIV/AIDS clinical trial network for help in building Black Clevelanders’ trust in COVID-19 studies by Rachel Dissell and Brie Zeltner (Plain Press, November 2020) It took more than a decade of participation on the Community Advisory Board at University Hospitals’ AIDS clinical trial unit for Ray Allmond, who is Black, to understand the…
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Black physicians help build trust in clinical trials, medical care after decades of community skepticism, mistreatment
Black physicians help build trust in clinical trials, medical care after decades of community skepticism, mistreatment by Rachel Dissell and Brie Zeltner (Plain Press, November 2020) Dr. Jackson Wright is successful at recruiting Black patients to participate in his research studies. That’s in part because he — and much of his team — look like them. …
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Cleveland efforts to recruit black, minority patients for COVID-19 vaccine trials an uphill battle
Cleveland efforts to recruit black, minority patients for COVID-19 vaccine trials an uphill battle by Brie Zeltner (Plain Press, November 2020) Dr. Carla Harwell, an internist who is the medical director of the University Hospitals Otis Moss Jr. Health Center is Black. So are almost all of her patients, and nearly everyone who lives in the…
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How are vaccines tested?
How are vaccines tested? (Plain Press, November 2020) Vaccines developed to combat diseases such as COVID-19 go through a clinical trial process to test whether they are safe and whether they will work. The vaccines being developed to prevent infection with coronavirus are going through basically the same process, though some steps are being run concurrently…
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