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Covid-19 tore through Mississippiās Black population in the pandemicās early days, but community efforts slowed the rate. Now health officials and community leaders aim to replicate the success as they dole out vaccines.
āLost on the Frontlineā is an ongoing project by Kaiser Health News and The Guardian that aims to document the lives of health care workers in the U.S. who died from COVID 19, and to investigate why so many are victims of the disease.
The volunteer medical providers at the Tree of Life Free Clinic in Tupelo, Mississippi, give crucial health care to the uninsured in the best of times, drawing crowds who line up for hours. Amid the current COVID pandemic, clinic staffers were advised to close. Instead, they chose to adapt ā even without critical N95 masks to protect themselves ā as the economic crisis intensifies the need for free care.
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