A top federal official charged with addressing racial disparities in health outcomes in the coronavirus pandemic acknowledged that police killings of Black Americans also pose a public health threat.
WASHINGTON — In frank terms, a top federal official charged with addressing racial disparities in health outcomes in the coronavirus pandemic acknowledged that police killings of Black Americans also pose a public health threat.
Recent weeks have also seen protests across the nation, following the police killings of several unarmed Black men and women. Some of President Trump’s supporters have denounced those protests on the grounds that they appear to violate the public health dictates in place since the pandemic arrived in the United States sometime in January.
“I don’t want to lose people to either,” she continued. “And I wouldn’t want to say that one is more important than the other.” If people want to protest, Liburd said, they should do what they can to “minimize the spread” of the pathogen. “But we don’t know yet what the impact of protests [is] going to be,” she acknowledged. She said if protesters wore face masks and maintained social distance, they will have “minimized some of their risk.”
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