Health Populi January 22, 2021
In the U.S., the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed disparities in housing, food, and job security, and the role that one’s ZIP code and social determinants play in health outcomes.
Overall, America has done poorly in light of being 4% of the world’s population but having one-fifth of the planet’s deaths due to the coronavirus.
But these have disproportionately hit non-white people, who are nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 than white Americans.
I’ve been head-down reviewing the first two days of President Biden’s signing Executive Orders, reading the National Strategy for COVID-19 Response, and inventorying line items in the American Rescue Plan (aka, the Biden Stimulus Plan), it’s clear that this administration is baking “equity” in their...
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