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Public health advocates have worked for years to address racial gaps in cancer outcomes by establishing programs like Body & Soul.

The singer has partnered with two organizations to advocate for cancer screening, which dropped steeply early in the pandemic.

While the United States is getting closer to this point, most health experts caution, it still has ground to cover.

Testing for the COVID-19 has plummeted, dropping by a third in two months.

“It’s not a free pass. We don’t know whether ‘if’ somebody is vaccinated means they will no longer be a carrier of coronavirus."

Pediatric hospitals are creating clinics to provide a one-stop shop for care and to catch any anomalies that could otherwise go unnoticed.

The reluctance comes despite serious risk of COVID-19 complications for people with blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma.

Across the country, post-COVID centers are treating patients recovering from severe illness and long stays in intensive care.

People who use special software for web accessibility aren’t able to sign up for the vaccines or obtain vital information about COVID-19.

Now that the vaccines are being distributed, public health advocates say churches are key to reaching Black citizens.

Lab officials say they can’t tell patients or their doctors whether someone has been infected by a COVID-19 variant.

Between 2.0 million and 4.4 million older adults are homebound, but they haven’t been recognized as a priority group for vaccines.

In most places, elderly people are pitted against one another, competing on an unstable technological playing field for limited shots.

Public health authorities are relying on community health workers to be a bridge to communities that have been hardest hit by COVID-19.

Many U.S. states aren’t rigorously tracking or investigating suspected cases of coronavirus reinfection.

More contagious variants add to the struggle agencies already face to trace contacts, communicate with the public and vaccinate residents.