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     The COVID vaccine isn’t a threat if you’re considering becoming pregnant. In fact, studies show that it offers powerful protection. Misconceptions and false information are working against healthcare workers as they race to get the vaccine into the arms of the public.

       The Coronavirus pandemic has brought into sharp relief the issues of health disparities and differences in health outcome between Blacks/African Americans, and the general US population. It has produced greater burdens in disease and economic outcomes for minority communities, when compared with others. This is not a new trend; it is a longstanding issue observed across many disease spectrums. Cancer has marked disparities between Blacks and others with respect to disease management and survival.

At the doctor’s office, María del Carmen Díaz heard the diagnosis no woman wants to hear: “you have breast cancer.” The disease involves a malignant tumor…