Some public health experts are bracing for a spike in COVID-19 cases in the wake of protests against police brutality.
It is an agonizing trade-off, they acknowledge. But it’s hardly a choice.
“I’ve spent the last several months of my life imploring and exhorting people to protect themselves, to reduce the spread of this virus and save lives,” said , a cardiologist at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine who is African American. But after Floyd’s death under the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, he said, “itIt dawned on me that my greatest risk is not COVID-19. It’s the color of my skin., an internist and health policy researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, has plumbed the power of despair to erode the health of specific American populations.
The mental health of white Americans was not associated with fatal police encounters involving either armed or unarmed black Americans. The findings were published in 2018 in the medical journal the Lancet.“It’s not like we’re giving them a choice here,” Venkataramani said of the latest spasm of protests.
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