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CDC to issue specific guidance to black communities disproportionately suffering from coronavirus
Data shows a "lack of equity" compounds the issue.
By
Cheyenne Haslett
and
Elizabeth Thomas
April 10, 2020, 4:03 PM
5 min read
As attention on the administration mounts over the blatant racial disparities revealed around the country in the fight against coronavirus, Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Friday that they'll be taking steps with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to give specific guidance to black communities around the country.
Adams and Pence held a call with more than 400 leaders in the African American community earlier on Friday, including those who have been critical of the government response as numbers continue to show a higher death toll in black communities than in white communities, such as civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson and NAACP President Derrick Johnson. Earlier this week, Johnson told ABC News the data in cities like Milwaukee and Louisiana showed "the lack of equity" and "the structural deficits that we’ve all known about."...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cdc-...ry?id=70085580
Data shows a "lack of equity" compounds the issue.
By
Cheyenne Haslett
and
Elizabeth Thomas
April 10, 2020, 4:03 PM
5 min read
As attention on the administration mounts over the blatant racial disparities revealed around the country in the fight against coronavirus, Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Friday that they'll be taking steps with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to give specific guidance to black communities around the country.
Adams and Pence held a call with more than 400 leaders in the African American community earlier on Friday, including those who have been critical of the government response as numbers continue to show a higher death toll in black communities than in white communities, such as civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson and NAACP President Derrick Johnson. Earlier this week, Johnson told ABC News the data in cities like Milwaukee and Louisiana showed "the lack of equity" and "the structural deficits that we’ve all known about."...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cdc-...ry?id=70085580