Prof. Nunez-Smith: Covid Creating a ‘Grief Gap’ Amongst Blacks, ‘Latinx Americans’

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NUNEZ-SMITH: “In my medical training, I saw countless patients whose conditions were shaped by factors having nothing to do with science and everything to do with broader social inequity. And now, the Covid-19 crisis has laid those inequities bear. It is not a coincidence and it is not a matter of genetics that more than 70 percent of African-Americans and more than 60 percent of Latinx Americans personally know someone who has been hospitalized or died from Covid-19. The same disparities engrained in our economy, our housing system, our food system, our justice system, and so many other areas of our society have conspired in this moment to create a grief gap that we cannot ignore. It is our societal obligation to ensure equitable access to testing, treatments and vaccines.”