By Jayne O’Donnell, Julianne Hill, and Enijah Brennon Leana Wen knew her mother, who got winded walking to her car, wasn’t simply anxious or depressed. But that’s what the medical doctors treating Sandy Ying Zhang thought and that’s what mattered. It was the early 2000’s and Wen was in medical school, but her mother scoffed,...
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Families face obstacles fighting lead poisoning during pandemic
Roman Sardo-Longo, Lal Tluang, Tam Chau, and TerNay Gay Since his two-year-old son’s routine blood test in November showed the child had been lead poisoned, Charrell Reed and his family have felt like prisoners in their apartment on the city’s West Side. Reed, 27, who works as a subcontractor for a home renovation company, knows...
Amid toll of COVID-19, violence compounds grief for families of homicide victims
Radiah Jamil, Kayla Johnson and Diamond Thomas-Dean Philadelphia-- Isolated from in-person connection due to the pandemic, Philadelphia mothers gather weekly from behind computer screens to partake in a virtual support group as they cope with their loss of a loved one. The need for virtual grief groups like those that the violence prevention and...
Surviving Trauma: Even Years Later, Trauma from Parkland Shooting Translates to Action
BY MICHELLE MAIRENA URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT Twitter: @michemairena MIAMI — It was Logan Rubenstein’s first week of freshman year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. During math class, there was a fire alarm. None of his classmates moved from their seats. Then a student started to cry. It was only six...
Surviving Trauma: Miami Resident Leans on Faith to Cope With Multiple COVID-19 Deaths
BY DANIEL GONZALEZ III URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI — Over just a few months during the pandemic, Elbert Waters, 66, of Miami Lakes, lost five loved ones to COVID-19. First it was his cousin, a man in his early 70’s who fell ill at the height of the hospitalizations in New York City in...