That's just silly — and stereotypical of woke nonsense. (Plus, even if it were defensible, any "should" is a political statement, not a scientific or medical statement, and doesn't belong in a medical journal. But anyway, the statement isn't even defensible politically.)
Of course your risk of infections by various agents will depend on where you live ("your ZIP code"). Some examples: Lyme disease, West Nile virus, dengue, Zika, chikungunya, valley fever, histoplasmosis, Cryptococcus gattii, brucellosis, hantavirus, tuberculosis.
Yes, public health efforts should include E. coli. But the cause here is carelessness in food preparation, cooking uncleanliness, and bad hygiene on the part of the residents of certain ZIP codes (the hidden suggestion in the article is the false implication that the problem is due to discrimination against the poor or to racism).
It is silly. But libsocs never pass up the chance to divide people and play the race and/or poverty cards.
Yes. That same phrase grabbed me. How many ways can they weave wokeness into any story?