White coats and black lives: Health care workers say 'racism is a pandemic too'

In San Francisco, Dr. Maura Jones, a doctor at one of the city's largest hospitals located just 15 minutes from the Golden Gate bridge--the site of a massive protest, sees the effects of the pandemic.

Jones understands the threat of the coronavirus pandemic but feels the threat of racism to her family is greater. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report from April highlighted 33% of hospitalized coronavirus patients are black, compared to 18% of the residents in surrounding areas. "He has a right to grow up, you know? He's okay. This world that we live in is not as cruel and as bad as everybody makes it. I want to live his dreams," Courts said.

“I definitely think it's connected. We’re seeing it in pregnancy outcomes and unfortunately seeing it with coronavirus. I think that it took this pandemic for the world to pay attention but this is something that we've been trying to fight for and call attention to for a long time,” Johnson said.Story continuesJohnson sees first hand a glaring disparity for women that look like her; the mortality rates for black women during childbirth.

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