“The Trump Administration would prefer to ignore the disproportionate impact this crisis is having on communities of color,” said. Sen. Patty Murray.
, Congress asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to collect national data on the race and ethnicity of COVID-19 cases and deaths.with a page of links that referred back to their public website.
“This wholly inadequate response tells us nothing except what we already knew: the Trump Administration would prefer to ignore the disproportionate impact this crisis is having on communities of color,” Sen. Patty Murray, the lead Democrat on a Senate Health Committee, said in a statement. Health experts say complete reports are key to addressing COVID-19 disparities in communities of color.
“Ultimately, these data will force some very difficult conversations about bungled responses so far, as well as about broader questions of race and racism in America. This is why agencies are dragging their feet on making these analyses available to lawmakers and the public.” Sen. Tim Scott, the lone black Republican senator and the only GOP member to call on the CDC to provide race and ethnicity data of COVID-19 victims, is instead urging states to report their own data.
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