Physicians in public health and on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis say they fear the response to the pandemic will lead to health care disparities, especially for minorities and low-income communities.
While more affluent parts of Nashville have had testing sites for weeks, this drive-through testing site at Meharry Medical College, in a historically African American neighborhood, experienced weeks of delays because staff couldn't acquire the needed testing supplies and gear like masks and gloves. It finally opened April 30.
On the campus of Meharry Medical College — a historically black institution in Nashville — drive-through testing tents sat empty for weeks, because the school couldn't acquire the necessary testing equipment and protective gear like gloves and masks. Hildreth says he's observed no overt bias on the part of health care workers, and doesn't suspect any.
"I pray I'm wrong," Fisher says."I think we're about to witness an inequitable distribution of the medical resources too."
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