Mayors, governor call out racial health disparities highlighted by coronavirus

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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser: The coronavirus pandemic is casting a “spotlight” on health disparities among African Americans

How lawmakers respond to the pandemicBowser, whose city is among major metropolitan areas including New Orleans and Detroit thought to be impending Covid-19 hot spots, called for “national and local actions” to address health disparities Sunday.

In response, Lightfoot said her administration put together a "racial equity rapid response team" made up of "health care providers, public health clinicians, as well as stakeholders in community — faith community, block clubs." Michelle Lujan Grisham, Democratic governor of New Mexico, also touched on health disparities in combating the coronavirus in a Sunday interview. Native Americans in Lujan Grisham's state have been disproportionately affected by the disease.

 

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Now do crime disparities ... Lifestyle choices ... The black community in America does not have a boot on its throat. This virus is a terrible thing but it ain't racial.

ITT: People who don't understand health disparity is a result of institutional discrimination with a long history rooted in racism.

Well, seems the mayor’s party has failed

Here we go again. It was just a matter of time before someone made this a racial issue.

Let’s factor in non-compliance with medications, diet, exercise and other treatment recommendations.

Not just health issues but also high exposure jobs without paid leave or healthcare !! It’s on everyone not just the African American community.

And Donald Trump is the only President in our life time that is doing something about it. You have to go back to Abraham Lincoln to find a President to Match what President Trump is doing for the African American Community!

health tip: eat right and exercise.

But what if COVID-19 is a RACE SPECIFIC BIO WEAPON set upon this nation by Israeli Mossad and the Jewish New World Order? Sure seems like that could be the case?

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