The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a declaration that many had long been waiting for - an official statement that racism is a serious threat to the public's health. It also launched a new agencywide initiative aimed at recognizing that structural racism is a fundamental cause of health inequality in America.
GODOY: Up until now, the CDC did not list racism as a public health threat, even though, certainly, this has been known. The COVID-19 pandemic has really laid bare the racial and ethnic health inequalities that exist in this country. We've seen this virus take a disproportionate toll on Black and brown communities.The death of George Floyd and others like him have just further shown us how racism can cut short the lives of people of colorAnd in response to all of this, you've had local jurisdictions across the U.S. declaring racism a public health threat. But the CDC hadn't until now.
The CDC says it plans to study how social determinants impact people's health - in other words, how access to things like healthy food, good schools, infrastructure, jobs, a healthy environment can all affect our health. This is what people mean when they talk about structural racism. It's really the fact that different racial and ethnic groups have unequal access to these things. The CDC is also now doing things like partnering with churches to help create community vaccination centers. These are for COVID now, but CDC hopes that this will create lasting infrastructure that can be used for, say, cancer screenings or childhood immunizations later down the road.
GODOY: The CDC has a powerful platform. It can set the agenda for public health agencies across the nation.
-Friendly reminder, there is only 1 human race.
-Make affordable healthcare for all
-Floyd had a lethal amount of fentanyl in his system and was non compliant
-Medical examiner was the same crooked man used for Epstein
-CDC is manifesting “racism”, division
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/985475713/cdc-declares-racism-a-public-health-threat
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-court-docs-say-george-floyd-had-fatal-level-of-fentanyl-in-his-system/ar-BB18pb0p
https://archive.ph/pjZn0
https://nypost.com/2020/05/29/ex-nyc-medical-examiner-to-perform-autopsy-on-george-floyd/