Sickle Cell Math Is Brutally Simple, but Not Widely Taught

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By BY GINA KOLATA from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3EwY5dG
via IFTTT Sickle Cell Anemia, Tests (Medical), Discrimination, Genetics and Heredity, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Race and Ethnicity, Blood, Black People, Volunteers and Community Service, Babies and Infants An inexpensive blood test can warn couples if they face one in four odds of having a baby with the disease. No one ever told Lametra Scott and Rickey Buggs about it.

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