New York City’s Health Department will take into account a Covid-19 patient’s race when considering whether they should receive potentially lifesaving treatment.
The Health Department’s official guidance says it wikk “consider race and ethnicity when assessing individual risk,” claiming that “longstanding systemic health and social inequities” can lead to higher rates of black and Hispanic people dying of Covid-19.
The guidance will apply to both the distribution of monoclonal antibodies and oral medications like Paxlovid and Molnupiravir, the NY Post reports.
The Post says that the city’s guidance is already having real-world effects, with a Staten Island doctor saying that a pharmacist asked for information regarding the race of two patients before filling prescriptions they had for Paxlovid.
“In my 30 years of being a physician I have never been asked that question when I have prescribed any treatment,” the doctor told the Post. “The mere fact of having to ask this question is a slippery slope.”
The Post says that it isn’t yet clear whether whites are being excluded from treatments due to the city’s guidance, but many are concerned that it could lead to white people being barred from obtaining necessary drugs in the future.
“I have not seen [race] as one of the risk factors for severe disease and death,” Martin Kulldorff, a Harvard epidemiologist and professor, told The Post. “The reason that a lot of African Americans have died in New York — which is true — is because the rich people and more affluent were working from home while the working class were exposed.”
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left the grand concourse
left east New York
Only time till j wake up and leave en mass this dreckhole called nyc
spoiler: Adams won’t save anything
he’s a lightweight and anyone with a half brain can see that
So much for being color blind
Everyone should do what I do: Put down you’re African-American on any and all forms requesting your race.
My ancestors came from Egypt, anyways.
My response to this is very simple. I fill out all applications but ask me what race I identify with as Mexican. The question is identify! If men can be women and women can be men, then surely, I can also play the game of pretend. And, I can pretend I am a Mexican.
This is what happens when you give shcoirim a little power.
sue in court and you’ll end up with a judge who will agree
If true, someone needs to sue. Will make a good Supreme Court case and will be accelerated due to urgency.
Maybe Barack Obama, Liz Warren, and Bernie Sanders can sue as they are being discriminated against.
White power!
> because the rich people and more affluent were working from home while the working class were exposed
There is clearly more than one reason. How about the fact that (as they are called) the minorities have been treated to an unrelenting onslaught of leftist propaganda about the racist establishment. It is no surprise then that they do the opposite of what the “racist establishment” tells them.
Very good comments and suggestions here. I love it.
If Elizabeth Warren said that she is native American why can’t we or in the matter of fact whatever other nationality We wish to be, like Jerry said Lol… I heard in France you’re not even allowed to ask what race a person is on legal documentation cuz it is considered racist I don’t know why it’s not like that here?!?
Black AND illegal border smuggler; your free pass to all benefits.
This must have been the last traces of Blasio. Only his crippled mind can think this up.
Or is Adams his obedient disciple?
Since this involves “state action”, it could lead to a massive amount of litigation, including wrongful death suits since it clearly violates the 14th amendment as well as statutes. And it would all be in Federal courts. Anyone denied the medication because of race will sue the state for lost income, and knowing how tort lawyers worked, you can assume they will be disabled from amazingly long periods. While this will be bad for New York taxpayers, it will be good for lawyers, and we all know there are many lawyers in need of parnassah.