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Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft talks about reopening the United States and how to get the schools going. The billionaire also gives his thoughts on the economy opening up via CNN with Fareed Zakaria. Gates gives an estimation on when we will know more on schools opening and how we will go about opening […]
Hospitals in New York state should soon receive the help that they need to combat SARS-CoV-2. On Wednesday, April 22, Senator Chuck Schumer announced to the public that New York State is to receive $4.3 billion out of a total of $10 billion from the portion of the CARES Act designed to help hospitals in […]
As concerns over the disproportionate impact COVID-19 on the nation’s minority communities reach wider audiences, members of the Black community aren’t taking the crisis lying down. Already skeptical of the medical establishment due to the awful legacy of the Tuskegee Experiment, in which the U.S. government secretly infected African American males with syphilis in a […]
Some local hospitals in the area will be getting a piece of the billion dollar pie. Senator Chuck Schumer announced that a dozen hospitals in our area will be receiving some of the $1.4 billion dollars via the CARES act. The CARES act is part of federal funding to hospitals that’s been on frontline during […]
On Monday, April 20, Jordan Health announced that it had opened up, in coordination with the City of Rochester, Monroe County and University of Rochester Medical Center, a new COVID-19 respiratory clinic on Holland Street at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center. The clinic is an official response to racial disparities that have occurred with […]
Black Americans were among the hardest hit demographics by the coronavirus, but a light is at the end of the tunnel regarding new testing sites becoming available in New York state. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said (https://13wham.com/news/local/ny-antibody-testing-begins-today) on Sunday that the state would begin testing for COVID-19 antibodies within the population. Fox56.com reported (https://fox56.com/news/coronavirus/some-grocery-stores-including-wegmans-chosen-for-antibody-testingasome-ny-grocery-stores-including-wegmans-chosen-for-antibody-testing) […]
On Tuesday, April 21, preliminary results from the largest study to date about the benefits and detriments of using the antimalarial and immunomodulatory drug hydroxychloroquine with or without the antibiotic azithromycin was published online before review by other scientists. Paid for by the National Institutes of Health and the University of Virginia, the results submitted […]
We are happy to announce free online dance fitness classes for the whole family! Hustle For Health Programs are online every Saturday at 11am live with Jazzy T & Ty Stewart. In January 2020, Hustle for Health launched our first line dance fitness class in Rochester at East High School. We quickly added programs at […]
People are experiencing a range of symptoms for COVID-19, because of that the Center for Disease Control has an update. The CDC has added six new symptoms to it’s list for the coronavirus. The symptoms to watch for were just fever, cough, and shortness of breath or difficulty breathing. Now the CDC added chills. Repeated […]
Dr. Jiqing Ye, a pathologist from Huanggang, China, currently works at Rochester General Hospital. This week, Ye learned that residents of his home town, which is approximately 50 miles from Wuhan, donated personal protective equipment to regional hospitals. The Huanggang High School Alumni Association and Huanggang Middle School Overseas Alumni Association sent a variety of […]
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