Dr. Richard Besser, the former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during part of the first term of the Obama administration, said that he worries as states continue their push to reopen communities of color will begin to see more “bad outcomes” since the virus disproportionately
“I worry, though, that as states start to open up, their economies, get more people back to work, which is something everyone wants to see happen,” Besser, a former medical editor at ABC News, said on the 'Powerhouse Politics' podcast.
In a Tuesday interview with ABC News'"World News Tonight" Anchor and Managing Editor David Muir President Trump said it was likely that there would be more deaths as the country reopens."It's possible there will be some because you won't be locked into an apartment or a house or whatever it is," Trump said. “Will some people be affected? Yes. Will some people be affected badly? Yes. But we have to get our country open and we have to get it open soon.
A CDC study found in the state of Georgia that the proportion of patients hospitalized with coronavirus who were black was higher than expected based on overall hospital admission standards and concluded that “it is important to continue ongoing efforts to understand why black persons are disproportionately hospitalized for COVID-19, including the role of social and economic factors.”
“And you add on top of that much higher rates of the underlying medical conditions that put people at risk. So heart disease, diabetes, lung problems, a lot having to do with worse environmental conditions in which people live. That means that not only is the exposure risk increased, but the chances of having a bad outcome are higher,” he said.
"And one of the things that that you see in all political administrations, you saw the Bush administration, the Obama administration and the Trump administration is that it's very easy for elected officials to say we're not going to put the money in to maintain our public health system," Besser said.
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