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BY AKILAH JOHNSONThe Biden administration
plans to announce Wednesday
that it will invest an additional
$785 million into efforts to stymie
the spread of the coronavirus in
communities that have been hit
hardest and those who are at the
highest risk of death and disease
— people of color, people with
disabilities, and people living in
rural or low-income areas.
This infusion of money builds
on billions of dollars invested in
equity-focused programs, such as
expanding access to vaccines at
community health centers and
supporting health workers, that
have helped decrease disparities
in death rates and closed racial
and ethnic gaps in vaccination
rates among adults.
“It’s just remarkable. We’re
some place different than we were
at the beginning of the pandemic,”
said Marcella Nunez-Smith, chair
of President Biden’s Covid-
Health Equity Task Force and as-sociate dean for health equity re-
search at Yale University. “The
work of the task force from the
beginning has been thinking just
about how to disrupt that predict-
ability:... Who’s going to get
harmed first, who’s going to get
harmed worst.”
The pandemic hit with an un-
equal impact, with Black, Latino
and Native American people twice
as likely to die of covid-19 as White
people. But a recent analysis by
the Kaiser Family Foundation
shows that at different points in
time, including this current wave
of the delta variant, disparities in
deaths and infections have nar-
rowed for Black and Latino people
compared with White people.
That was not the case for Amer-
ican Indians and Alaska Natives
during this most recent wave of
the pandemic, said Samantha Ar-
tiga, vice president and director of
the racial equity and health policy
program at Kaiser Family Foun-
dation.
“For American Indian and Alas-ka Native people, that disparity
widened again and has not come
back down the way we’ve seen” for
other groups, Artiga said, adding
that more research is needed to
better understand why.
The task force issued its final
report to the White House Office
on Covid-19 Response on Wednes-
day, and the additional funding is
a direct response to its recom-
mendations to help eradicate
health disparities and support un-
derserved communities.
Missing race and ethnicity
data, mistrust of a medical estab-
lishment that has a legacy of mis-
treatment, and practical barriers
such as a lack of pharmacies, hos-
pitals, providers and transporta-
tion have all hindered the pan-
demic response and helped fuel
the disparities that have become a
mark of the American health-care
system.
The task force, over the past 10
months, has tackled the issues in
hundreds of interim recommen-
dations that focused on equitableaccess to vaccines, personal pro-
tective equipment, testing, thera-
pies and treatments. The propos-
als have considered what the pan-
demic will leave behind, ensuring
people of color have access to
resources to address long-haul
covid, mental and behavioral
health needs, as well as discrimi-
nation and xenophobia in health
care.
More than 80 percent of the
interim recommendations have
been fulfilled, according to the
administration, and the final re-
port groups the remaining recom-
mendations into five priorities
that include strengthening the
data ecosystem, increased ac-
countability and access, and en-
suring the health-care workforce
looks like the communities it
serves.
“There’s more work to do. We’re
still in a pandemic,” Nunez-Smith
said. “I fear complacency. Things
can change so quickly, and they
have before.”
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BY CHRISTIAN DAVENPORTFour more astronauts blasted
into orbit Wednesday, continuing
a historic year of human space-
flight in which a diverse array of
people have flown on several dif-
ferent spacecraft to varying parts
of the increasingly popular neigh-
borhood just outside Earth’s at-
mosphere.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted
off at 9:03 p.m. Eastern time,
carrying a crew of four, including
three NASA astronauts and one
European, on what is expected to
be a 22-hour journey to the Inter-
national Space Station, where
they are to stay for about six
months.
The launch from the Kennedy
Space Center in Florida was the
fifth time that SpaceX has flown
humans to orbit and the fourth
time it has done so under its
contract with NASA. In Septem-
ber, it flew four civilians in what
was called the Inspiration4 mis-
sion — a three-day flight in the
SpaceX Dragon capsule that cir-
cled the globe every 90 minutes.
The launch came less than
48 hours after SpaceX had re-
turned the previous astronaut
crew from the space station to a
picture-perfect splashdown in the
Gulf of Mexico — evidence that
SpaceX is gaining prowess in mul-
tiple aspects of its role as NASA’s
primary way to transport goods
and people to the space station.
After reaching orbit, NASA as-
tronaut Raja Chari told mission
control that “it was a great ride.
Better than we expected.”
The SpaceX launch director
told the crew, which will continue
the mission on Veterans Day: “It
was a pleasure to be part of this
mission with you. Enjoy your holi-
day amongst the stars. We’ll be
waving as you fly by.”
The flight comes as a number
of companies are working to fly
private citizens to space — from
the actor William Shatner, 90,
who became the oldest person toreach the edge of space, to Oliver
Daemen, a student from the Neth-
erlands, who at 18 became the
youngest.
Wednesday’s l aunch, dubbed
Crew-3, is commanded by Chari,
an Air Force colonel and test pilot
who is making his first trip to
space. He was joined by Kayla
Barron, a Navy lieutenant com-
mander who served on a nuclear
submarine, Tom Marshburn, a
physician who has flown to space
twice before, once on the space
shuttle and once on the Russia
Soyuz, and European astronaut
Matthias Maurer, an engineer
from Germany. It is also Barron’s
and Maurer’s first trip to space.
The three rookies became the
599th, 600th and 601st people to
fly past the 50-mile edge of space,
NASA said. The list of space trav-
elers is growing in part because of
the efforts of Jeff Bezos’s Blue
Origin and Richard Branson’s Vir-
gin Galactic, which take paying
customers just past the edge of
space in suborbital trips that fly
up and then fall back down to
Earth.
Russia continues to fly astro-
nauts on its Soyuz spacecraft and
recently said that it would allowits cosmonauts to fly on SpaceX
Dragon capsules. China also is
flying humans and recently sent
up a crew of three to the space
station it is assembling in Earth
orbit. And NASA’s Orion space-
craft is scheduled to launch early
next year without any astronauts
onboard on a trip that would go
around the moon in preparation
for a human landing, perhaps as
soon as 2025 under a new sched-
ule NASA announced on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Boeing is working
to develop a spacecraft that would
fly astronauts to the space station
as part of NASA’s “commercial
crew” program. But its program
has suffered through all sorts of
problems and delays. On a test
flight without astronauts at the
end of 2019, the spacecraft suf-
fered a software problem that
forced controllers to truncate the
mission and forgo a docking with
the station.
Boeing decided to redo the test
flight and take a charge of
$410 million.
Then over the summer, the
Starliner capsule suffered an-
other problem ahead of that do-
over, this time with valves that
remained stuck in the servicemodule. The flight never got of f,
and Boeing said last month that it
would take another charge, this
time of $185 million, to cover the
costs of the delay.
During a news conference last
month, John Vollmer, Boeing’s
program manager for the com-
mercial crew program, declined
to say how much the problem
would cost the company. But he
said “NASA would not bear any
responsibility for those costs that
are within scope of our contract.... So, we’re not expecting any
charge to the government from
that side.” He added that the com-
pany would not back away from
the program as a result of the
additional costs. “We are 100 per-
cent committed to fulfilling our
contract with the government,
and we intend to do that,” he said.
As it continues to solidify its
status as NASA’s premier human
spaceflight partner, SpaceX, the
California company founded by
Elon Musk, is also working
toward flying more private citi-
zens. It has a mission commis-
sioned by Axiom Space, a Hous-
ton-based company, set to take
three civilians and a former NASA
astronaut, who would serve as
their guide, to the space station
for about a week.
As those efforts continue, many
believe the ranks of spacefarers
will increase dramatically.
“Six hundred in 60 years, it
makes for 10 people per year,”
Maurer said during a preflight
news conference. “But I think in
the next few years, we’ll see an
exponential rise. Now we’re enter-
ing the era for commercial space-
flight.”
Before SpaceX flew its first test
flight with a pair of NASA astro-
nauts last year, the space agency
had spent nearly a decade after
the space shuttle was retired pay-
ing for seats on the Russia Soyuz.
The Crew-3 mission is slated to
dock with the space station at
7:10 p.m. Eastern time Thursday.
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