Monday, April 12, 2021

Will a ton of money, funneled through face-baiting insiders take care of things?-----CDC Director Walensky declares racism a ‘serious public health threat’

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"The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called racism a serious threat to public health Thursday in a statement, responding to the glaring racial inequities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic that has resulted in the death of over 500,000 Americans.
“Across this country people are suffering,” CDC chief Rochelle Walensky said. 
“Importantly, these painful experiences and the impact of COVID-19 are felt, most severely, in communities of color.”
Walensky commented on the disproportionate case counts and deaths in communities of color “where the social impact of the pandemic has been most extreme.”
She also acknowledged that the disparities seen over the past year were not a result of COVID-19: “Instead, the pandemic illuminated inequities that have existed for generations and revealed for all of America a known, but often unaddressed, epidemic impacting public health: racism.”...Read all.

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