the outdoor conditions and the virus even more.
The great danger in shortchanging testing among blacks, the most vulnerable group in the population to illness, is that the absence of testing could have disastrous health consequences for the general population. Disease and afflictions can’t be walled off among one group. There is too much interaction across population lines for that.
“We are deeply concerned that African-American communities are being hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, and that racial bias may be impacting the access they receive to testing and healthcare,” Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Whatever reason they give, no reason, in our opinion, is good enough to deny any person the right to get tested if they are sick. Period.
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