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Five on Friday: FDA to Allow Mixing and Matching of COVID-19 Boosters

Five on Friday: FDA to Allow Mixing and Matching of COVID-19 Boosters

Oct 22, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
It’s Friday! Time to peek into the inboxes of MCN staff. Each week, we share lots of news, resources, and videos among ourselves to keep up to date. Here are a few we wanted to highlight.…
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Eleven Tips for Sustainable Activism Without Getting Overwhelmed

Oct 20, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Albert Einstein said, “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” I hope I am not being presumptuous to add a corollary: “Not…
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Partner Spotlight: La Mujer Obrera fights COVID-19 in El Paso

Oct 19, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
La Mujer Obrera is an El Paso, Texas based community organization that has been providing COVID-19 resources to the Chamizal neighborhood of El Paso, an almost entirely Latinx community that has a…
Five on Friday: Interconnections and Violence in our Food System

Five on Friday: Interconnections and Violence in our Food System

Oct 15, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Pull out the popcorn -- Five on Friday is going to the movies! While not exactly full-length Hollywood blockbusters, we thought you’d enjoy some visual content for this week’s blog post…
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Include the Alias? Skip the Real Name? COVID-19 Vaccination Card Recommendations

Oct 12, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Names can be a complex thing for immigrant and migrant workers. These workers often must use a pseudonym in workplaces, as they may lack documentation to legally work in the United States using…
Five on Friday: #Immigrants Are Essential

Five on Friday: #Immigrants Are Essential

Oct 8, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Friday has finally arrived! Here are five resources & reads that MCN staff shared this week as we keep up with the world of health justice. We share tons more throughout the week on our Twitter…
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Pregnant? Get Vaccinated Immediately, Says the CDC with New Data in Hand

Oct 6, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, three pregnant women with severe COVID checked into a rural hospital in Pennsylvania. Two required intubation and ventilation, and then were quickly transferred to the ICU. These patients…
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Extreme Heat Is a Killer. A New Federal Initiative Prioritizes Worker Health and Safety.

Oct 4, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Kathleen Rest, Executive Director of Union of Concerned Scientists On Monday, President Biden announced a new cross-agency initiative to address extreme heat – the nation’s leading weather-…
Five on Friday: How Vermont Has Vaccinated Its Farm Workers

Five on Friday: How Vermont Has Vaccinated Its Farm Workers

Oct 1, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Here on Five on Friday, we try to share a diversity of resources from the many members of the MCN staff who share what they're finding useful. This week, Alma Galván shared three exceptional and…
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Learning from the Past: Measles and Vaccine Confidence

Sep 29, 2021
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
In 2017, Minnesota public health authorities were alarmed by an uptick in pediatric cases of the measles, which appeared to be the start of a second outbreak in a decade. Almost 20 years prior,…
Five on Friday: Administration Moves to Protect Workers from Heat

Five on Friday: Administration Moves to Protect Workers from Heat

Sep 24, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Friday is here again – time to have a look into MCN staff inboxes with this week’s edition of Five on Friday. Got news or resources to share? We love to hear about them. Share with us on Facebook…
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Six Practical Steps to Prevent Child Suicide

Sep 23, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In the last few months, I have been shaken over the unprecedent tragic increase in child attempted and completed suicides among youth, even in cohorts of five- to 12-year-olds, one facet of a…
Five on Friday: Vaccination Protects Workers

Five on Friday: Vaccination Protects Workers

Sep 17, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Happy Friday to you! It’s that time again: here are five pieces that were shared by MCN staff this week, including one that’s a double Weekly Win. Kaethe forwarded on this troubling article,…
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Heat Kills Workers, Standards Save Lives: MCN Comments on Maryland Heat Standard

Sep 15, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Heat stress kills food and farmworkers – and every heat-related illness that these workers experience can be prevented. Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH) is drafting a much-needed…
A nurse speaking with Afghan refugees

10 Steps to Provide Trauma-Informed Care for Afghan Refugees

Sep 13, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees are arriving across the US – and all of them will receive a health assessment in the coming weeks. Once they arrive on US soil, Afghan families are connected to…
Five on Friday: Understanding Long COVID

Five on Friday: Understanding Long COVID

Sep 9, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
COVID-19 data keep pouring in. So, our understanding of the virus and its variants continues to grow. And, of course, policies and recommendations shift as we get to know this terrible virus.…
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Tips for Making the Most of Interpreters and Interpretation Hotlines

Sep 8, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Interpreters and interpretation hotlines are key tools for clinicians when they do not share a common language with their patients. While interpreters may work full time or part time in the office…
A farmworker in a facemask in the field

Farmworkers & COVID-19: Partnerships to Protect Workers Highlighted in American Journal of Public Health

Sep 7, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In 2020, America got a close-up look at the exploitative conditions, lack of basic occupational protections, poor access to health care, and institutional oppression that food and farm workers have…
Five on Friday: Kids and the COVID-19 Vaccines

Five on Friday: Kids and the COVID-19 Vaccines

Sep 3, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Happy Friday! Before you head out the door (or, for those working from home, before you wander from the living room to the kitchen) for your three-day weekend, how about reading some news on health…
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Nominate a Clinician for the 2021 Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award Before September 15th

Sep 2, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Clinicians serving marginalized communities are stressed. Their work -- serving people who often have overlapping and complicated barriers to maintaining their health and accessing health care -- has…
A worker in a facemask

COVID-19 Vaccine Employer Mandates Should Be Accompanied By Basic Protections & Worker Accommodations

Aug 31, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In the first year of the pandemic, meat packing facilities, farms and orchards, and food warehouses became hotspots of transmission, as essential workers were required to work through the pandemic,…
Five on Friday: Maternal Health Inequities in the United States

Five on Friday: Maternal Health Inequities in the United States

Aug 27, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
It’s the end of August! Before you head into the weekend, take a look at these five pieces that MCN staff shared this week. And, of course, one Weekly Win to end the list, to celebrate the positive…
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Empathy Can Be Debilitating. Here’s How to Move Empathy into Action.

Aug 26, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
I have always been haunted by certain kinds of injustices. Since the founding of Witness to Witness (W2W), there have been many issues that I cannot shake. In July 2019, I heard Columbia Law…
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Chlorpyrifos Ban Will Protect Farmworker Childrens' Health, But A Full Ban Is Still Needed

Aug 25, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the ban of the use of chlorpyrifos on food crops. Migrant Clinicians Network celebrates the long-overdue ban of this dangerous…
Five on Friday: Covid-19 Variants and Vaccination

Five on Friday: COVID-19 Variants and Vaccination

Aug 20, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
This Friday staff have shared some serious updates in the world of COVID-19 as well as an outstanding win that MCN staff and others have been working towards for years. The future looks grim,…
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Delta Variant & COVID-19 Vaccines: Updated Information and Resources

Aug 17, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Robert KinnairdThe Delta variant has become the prominent form of the virus, with around 83 percent of COVID-19 cases in the United States being caused by this more contagious variant. First found…