By: Teddy Grant Former President Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban negatively impacted the health of Muslim Americans in Minnesota, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association by the Yale School of Public Health. Researchers looked at over 250,000 adult patients in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area between January 2016 and December 2017. There was an increase in emergency room visits during this time, a decrease in primary care appointments and more stress-related illnesses among Muslim, refugee and immigrant communities, HuffPost reported. RELATED: Trump’s latest travel ban highlights gaps in containment net “This offers support to the thesis that the Islamophobia […]
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