The Biden administration plans to announce it will invest an additional $785 million in communities that have been hardest hit by the pandemic — people of color, people with disabilities, those living in rural areas and low-income communities
and associate dean for health equity research at Yale University. “The work of the task force from the beginning has been thinking just about how to disrupt that predictability … who’s going to get harmed first, who’s going to get harmed worst.”The pandemic hit with an unequal impact, with Black, Latino and Native American people twice as likely to die of the coronavirus as White people.
“For American Indian and Alaska Native people, that disparity widened again and has not come back down the way we’ve seen” for other groups, Artiga said, adding that more research is needed to better understand why.The task force issued its final report to the White House Office on COVID-19 Response on Wednesday, and the additional funding is a direct response to its recommendations to help eradicate health disparities and support underserved communities.
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