Italy: Holocaust survivor's plug for vaccine sparks hatred
Segre's efforts to encourage other older adults to receive the anti-COVID-19 vaccine as she did have triggered a wave of anti-Semitic comments and other invective on social media. (Yara Nardi/pool photo via AP, file)ROME โ An Italian Holocaust survivorโs attempt to encourage other older adults to receive the anti-COVID-19 vaccine has triggered a wave of anti-Semitic comments and other invective on social media. Liliana Segre, 90, received the first of the two-shot vaccine series in Milan on Thursday. She urged people who reach her age โto not be afraid and to take the vaccine.โโIโm not afraid of the vaccine, Iโm afraid of the illness," Segre remarked. Segre was one of the few Italian children to survive deportation to a Nazi death camp.
Black lawmakers say virus requests unanswered in Texas
DALLAS Three months into the coronavirus outbreak in Texas, black lawmakers say Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and state health officials have fallen short in addressing their pleas for better racial data and efforts to decrease COVD-19's decidedly deadly toll on black Americans. Texas has struggled to track racial health disparities. But with so much of that data completed as unknown, the actual number of black cases could be much higher than the states. Rep. James White, the only black Republican in the Legislature, said collecting racial data is necessary to respond to the pandemic.