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Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Point to Need for Medicare for All

Dean E. Robinson Labor Notes
A system that pins health insurance to employment makes health care a commodity rather than a right. Such a system is a textbook example of “institutional racism”—a system that looks “neutral” but that produces and reproduces the racial inequalities

Why Richard Neal’s Seat Is No Longer Safe

Daniel Boguslaw The American Prospect
Too cozy with the hospital lobby and pharmaceutical industry, the Massachusetts congressman has failed constituents during the COVID crisis.

Racism Is A Deadly Virus, Too: A Public Health Defense Of These Mass Protests

Mary Bassett, Caroline Buckee and Nancy Krieger New York Daily News
Protesters are in the streets demonstrating against police brutality and white supremacy to protect themselves and their communities because institutions have been killing black people in this country far longer than the coronavirus has.