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Coronavirus Hot Spot Persists In Southeast Nashville, Home To Diverse Communities

Alexis Marshall

June 2, 2020

For more than eight weeks, Southeast Nashville has been the site of a coronavirus hot spot. It’s home to some of the city’s most diverse communities. In Nashville and across the country, people of color are being disproportionately affected by the virus. The Metro Public Health Department has published heat maps showing where new and […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Race & Equity Tagged With: Coronavirus In Tennessee, immigrants, minority health

Meharry-Vanderbilt Project To Develop Gauge For African-American Distrust In Doctors

Blake Farmer

August 1, 2018

Listen African-American men have long distrusted the health care system, and it shows in how slow they are to go to the doctor. A new grant to a team of Nashville researchers will establish a way to measure that trust and whether it’s improving.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Health Care, minority health

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