The governor of Maryland pushed back against President Donald Trump's claim at his latest briefing that states are in 'good shape' with ventilators and protective equipment.
"Nobody was really tracking these things and it was difficult to do because none of the federal labs, the CDC, nobody was actually tracking these tests by race," Hogan said.
He added that the state now has data on patients' race for about 80%, which was"better than any state in America.", including Maryland, have seen racial disparities in the number of coronavirus infections and deaths. While Black residents are 31% of Maryland's population, they make up the majority of deaths in the state from COVID-19 infections at 52%, and 49% of total coronavirus infections, according to theRaddatz spoke earlier this week to Maryland state Del.
At a White House press conference Friday, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams and Vice President Mike Pence said that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working onaround the country. Adams said Friday that he wanted to be"crystal clear" that people of color aren't biologically or genetically predisposed to get COVID-19.
Dr. Mary Bassett, the former New York City commissioner of health and a professor at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, doubled down on Adams point. "These racial differences aren't due to some inherent characteristics of people of who are classified as black or Latino," she told ABC News."To just say that these are people who've made a series of bad choices and that's why they're sick leaves out a whole other side of the story."How it started and how to protect yourself:
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