Racism is a public health crisis and COVID-19 has made it worse, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Thursday that the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color was disproportionate to the rest of the population but that the issue is much deeper than the pandemic. 'Yet, the disparities seen over the past year were not a result of COVID-19,' Walensky said in a statement 'Instead, the pandemic illuminated inequities that have existed for generations and revealed for all of America a known, but often unaddressed, epidemic impacting public […]
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