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Senate Grills CDC Nominee Susan Monarez on Agency Cuts

Physician's Weekly

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says she supports science, vaccines and public health programs — but she dodged key questions about recent cuts to the agency during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. Susan Monarez , 50, told senators she values “evidence-based decision-making” and believes “vaccines save lives.”

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Episode 145: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 3 – Structural Inequities and the Pandemic’s Winter Surge

The Clinical Problem Solvers

While it started with accusations that Black people and POC do not take the virus seriously and/or have chronic diseases and unhealthy habits, most presently it manifests through discourse around black people’s weariness of taking the forthcoming COVID-19 vaccine. Hospitals Know What’s Coming. APM Research Lab.