Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A 19-year-old sailor went into the ocean off the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, and the country only found out because his family said something. Today on ELLA: Black and Brown Women Disruptors in Healthcare and Beyond, Dr. Haydée Brown and Dr. Sonya Sloan do the exact same clinical read they do every week — except this week the patient is a warship. Five thousand sailors and Marines. A deployment scheduled for seven months that has now passed 260 days at sea, more than 200 of them without a single port call, a modern record for a U.S. carrier. Rationed food, compromised water and hygiene, and a mental-health crisis the Navy will not put numbers to. Two physicians explain why these are population-health problems, not "inconvenience" problems — then follow the supply line to a Navy logistics hub knocked out in February, a 2,200-mile reroute, and 1.5 million pounds of ordnance that still moved on time while the ship ran out of toothpaste. They connect it to Port Chicago, 1944, and the 80-year fight of Black sailors to be believed about unsafe conditions. The surveillance system for the health of 5,000 U.S. service members was not the Department of Defense. It was the families. Sources verified through August 21, 2026.
Dr. Haydée Brown writes every Thursday about the systems underneath the news at https://drhaydeebrown.substack.com.
Dr. Sonya Sloan writes at sonyasloanmd.substack.com
If you or someone you love is in crisis: call or text 988, then press 1 for the Veterans/Military Crisis Line — available to service members and their families, 24/7.
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A 19-year-old sailor went into the ocean off the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, and the country only found out because his family said something. Today on ELLA: Black and Brown Women Disruptors in Healthcare and Beyond, Dr. Haydée Brown and Dr. Sonya Sloan do the exact same clinical read they do every week — except this week the patient is a warship. Five thousand sailors and Marines. A deployment scheduled for seven months that has now passed 260 days at sea, more than 200 of them without a single port call, a modern record for a U.S. carrier. Rationed food, compromised water and hygiene, and a mental-health crisis the Navy will not put numbers to. Two physicians explain why these are population-health problems, not "inconvenience" problems — then follow the supply line to a Navy logistics hub knocked out in February, a 2,200-mile reroute, and 1.5 million pounds of ordnance that still moved on time while the ship ran out of toothpaste. They connect it to Port Chicago, 1944, and the 80-year fight of Black sailors to be believed about unsafe conditions. The surveillance system for the health of 5,000 U.S. service members was not the Department of Defense. It was the families. Sources verified through August 21, 2026.
Dr. Haydée Brown writes every Thursday about the systems underneath the news at https://drhaydeebrown.substack.com.
Dr. Sonya Sloan writes at sonyasloanmd.substack.com
If you or someone you love is in crisis: call or text 988, then press 1 for the Veterans/Military Crisis Line — available to service members and their families, 24/7.
Pre-order the new book from MeidasTouch, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, today: bit.ly/wtfamericayoutube
Visit meidasplus.com for more!
MeidasTouch relies on SnapStream to record, watch, monitor, and clip the news. Get a FREE TRIAL of SnapStream by clicking here: go.snapstream.com/affiliate/meidastouch/meidasnews?utm_campaign=4490308-affiliate2025&utm_content=customerpartner
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