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The first four bills that the councilmember introduced focus on health care, schools, and workers. One bill, titled the Maternal Health Resources and Access Act, would create a pilot program where Medicaid would pay for doula services; study the feasibility of creating a birth center east of the Anacostia River (where there are none); and subsidize transportation to maternal health appointments.

If the District were a state, it could fix its shot problem. Christina Henderson, brought the matter up at that afternoon’s council meeting. “When our neighbors arrive for a scheduled appointment,” she later told me, “they deserve to be met with a safe, organized, and professional process.”

Residents of wealthy, mostly White areas still get shots at more than twice the rates in poorer, mostly Black areas.

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CEO of Planned Parenthood Metro Washington Laura Meyers blames the disparity on “centuries of systemic racism and lack of investment in Black communities.” Planned Parenthood Metro Washington supports the bill.

D.C. plans to pay several thousand high schoolers this summer to attend class as part of the city’s plan to combat learning loss during the pandemic.

Henderson prioritizes women’s maternal health, including pre- and post-natal care, as a means to strengthen the economic viability of working families. “Most people don’t realize that one-half of the Black women in D.C. and one-third of the Hispanic women in the District don’t even receive prenatal care until their second or third trimesters,” she said.

We still don't know the official launch date for the pre-registration program, or answers to other key questions.

New councilmembers Christina Henderson and Janeese Lewis George want to personalize the lawmaking process — in part by using their social media profiles.

Starting Saturday, the D. C. Convention Center will be used as a high capacity vaccination site for Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, which requires only one dose. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser made the announcement during a news conference on Thursday. In addition to the convention center location...

DC at-large councilmember Christina Henderson explains how the numerous problems frustrating many at the DC Vaccine registration site are being solved.

Frustration is growing in D. C. , after more technical difficulties were reported on Saturday. “We are extremely concerned, because there are tens of thousands of District residents who are eligible,” said Ward 2 council member Brooke Pinto. Vaccine appointments were gone in less than an...