Two years and counting into the pandemic, the city of Chicago looks at how COVID-19 has affected racial life expectancy gap. ‘The news is not good,’ Dr. Arwady says.
,” a biweekly live talk Instagram program hosted by Dr. Erica Taylor, on various topics within the Black community regarding health disparities, health care, wellness, mental health and other related issues.
“The Healthy Chicago Equity Zone model is the city’s attempt to take some of what has been good with COVID — funding community based organizations, working together on things like the unvaccinated — moving that work forward to continue to fund these networks to work on things like chronic disease,” Arwady said. “Even in the year 2020, heart disease was still the number one thing that killed Chicagoans. COVID was number two and it goes on from there.
Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to extend full Medicaid benefits to new mothers from 60 days to one year postpartum Strengthening violence prevention services, which includes the city’s network of street outreach providers.
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