Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Sunday suggested that the underlying health conditions of Americans, in particular in minority communities, contributed significantly to the death toll from the coronavirus.
"Unfortunately the American population is a very diverse ...
It's about simple -- simple epidemiology and stating that, if we have hypertension, if we have diabetes, we present with greater risk of severe complications from corona -- from this coronavirus," Azar responded."That's -- that's all I was saying. And you know that," he said. Azar continued, saying,"This is not -- one doesn't blame an individual for their health conditions. That would be -- that -- that -- that would be absurd.
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