{"id":9102,"date":"2020-12-18T17:26:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/22\/7-things-that-could-reduce-health-disparities-for-blacks-latinos-hit-hardest-by-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:37:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:37:08","slug":"7-things-that-could-reduce-health-disparities-for-blacks-latinos-hit-hardest-by-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/7-things-that-could-reduce-health-disparities-for-blacks-latinos-hit-hardest-by-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"7 things that could reduce health disparities for Blacks, Latinos hit hardest by pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shaniece Criss, an assistant professor of health sciences at Furman University, a Prisma Health board member and a Travelers Rest city councilwoman, was quoted in an article appearing in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/health\/2020\/12\/18\/heres-what-could-help-greenville-blacks-latinos-hit-hardest-covid\/3864449001\/\">The Greenville News<\/a> <\/strong>about COVID-19 and how the disease breaks along racial and socioeconomic lines. \u201cWhen you look at the pandemic, it is really just highlighting the health disparities that were in our population beforehand,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Everybody regardless of race or ethnicity, has to be willing to do their part to keep everyone safe,&#8221; Criss added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaniece Criss, an assistant professor of health sciences at Furman University, a Prisma Health board member and a Travelers Rest city councilwoman, was quoted in an article appearing in The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,70,21,6],"tags":[625,255,626,627,628,629],"class_list":["post-9102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","category-health-sciences","category-in-the-news","tag-black-americans","tag-covid-19","tag-essential-workers","tag-health-disparities","tag-latino","tag-latinx"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}