Posted on 12/02/2020 4:31:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Addressing racial disparities in the U.S. coronavirus crisis cannot be an afterthought, a top adviser to President-elect Joe Biden on the COVID-19 pandemic response said Tuesday.
That means when testing and vaccination programs are designed and implemented, for example, they must consider fairness and equity along with efficiency in order to be truly effective, said Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, an expert on health care inequality at Yale University, in an interview with The Associated Press.
“We cannot get this pandemic under control if we do not address head-on the issues of inequity in our country,” she said. “There is no other way.”
Nunez-Smith, associate dean for health equity research at Yale’s medical school, co-chairs Biden’s advisory board on the coronavirus pandemic with former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler.
Biden’s choice of Nunez-Smith to help lead his pandemic task force signaled his intention to address the pandemic’s unequal toll on minorities, who disproportionally have jobs on the front lines, medical conditions associated with severe disease, higher rates of poverty and poor access to health care.
For Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans in the U.S., the rates of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 are two to four times higher than for whites, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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How come you see plenty of Americans who are black at Trump rallies, but hardly any blacks at these BLM riots?
All these wasted interviews. Biden will not be President.
Toilet paper is racist as well, because it is white.
What the hell does race have to do with the virus fight? Are they saying that they will distribute based upon race? BLM’ers first? Thats when CW2 starts - but do we have the guts to take out these racist anarchists?
“How come you see plenty of Americans who are black at Trump rallies, but hardly any blacks at these BLM riots?”
Because Soy Boys and Karens are useful idiots for leftists and anarchists?
We could stop at “an expert on health care inequality at YALE”...what in the devil does that even mean? These people are really sick in the head...Who doesn’t get health care in this country?
“”Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, an expert on health care inequality at Yale University, in an interview with The Associated Press.
“We cannot get this pandemic under control if we do not address head-on the issues of inequity in our country,” she said. “There is no other way.””
Men are also disproportionately affected by the virus but they don’t mention that.
Maybe the chicoms spray Nike sneakers down with the virus before they ship them?
jpp113 wrote: “What the hell does race have to do with the virus fight? Are they saying that they will distribute based upon race?”
That’s exactly what they mean when the use the term “equity” which to them means exactly the same outcomes between minorities and whites. Same income, same housing, same CV impacts. IOW, if there are more minorities affected by CV, then we must deny the vaccine to whites until CV cases/deaths are aligned with racial demographics.
Democrats are still racist at the core.
Get ready minorities, you’re about to be the vaccine guinea pigs.
Only for a little while.
The Left changing words again. They squealed for EQUALITY and got it. Now it is RACIST to say equality. They DEMAND equity. Very important to see what they have done. Evil.
“Are they saying that they will distribute based upon race?”
On his show the other night, Tucker Carlson showed one of Biden’s picks to be in charge of the vaccine distribution, or one of the people giving advice to him on the issue, say EXACTLY that.
I missed that announcement. Did they write a new Constitution?
The BLM protestors want to make sure those black lives are protected so they can show up at Donald Trump rallies!
Just prioritize all vulnerable populations.
Wait, you mean that would include poor Whites?
Never mind. /sarc
It’s just another fake degree created for people who were to stupid or to lazy to become actual physicians.
But...but...but....
The left continually tell us “there is no such thing as race! Race is a social construct!”
But then these hypocrites have never believed in reality - only for themselves, that is.
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