The Post says: Racial medical care is careless and racist

Source: new york post
Published: Jan 2, 2022
Author: Post Editorial Board
Post Date: 2022-01-02 14:57:53 by tankumo
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Call New York’s prioritization of COVID tests and treatments by ethnicity exactly what it is: racist.

Mayor de Blasio’s obsession with race already hurt our schools and our police department, so why not go the extra mile and sacrifice our lives? Rather than distribute city COVID testing resources based on population, his administration prioritized neighborhoods that have “borne the brunt of this pandemic due to structural racism,” a Health Department representative told The Post.

Meanwhile, the distribution of COVID medicine such as monoclonal antibodies “will consider race and ethnicity when assessing individual risk.”

But what is that risk? Not race, but class, says a Harvard epidemiologist and professor. “I have not seen [race] as one of the risk factors for severe disease........

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