With mass protests across the country, in response to George Floyd police killings, Breonna Taylor and before them many American blacks broke out, he saw Dr. Rhea Boyd demonstrations not only as a necessary risk in a pandemic. The pediatrician based in California who consider life-saving. “If people were to understand that racism and all social and political and economic inequalities that racism creates, ultimately, the health of injured people,” says Boyd, they would see that “the protest is a profound public health intervention because it finally allows to address and order forms of inequality. “Boyds positions like that are widely accepted in the medical community, some people can beat as hypocritical. Because at home to stay in the midst of a pandemic, after months of human tells the spread of COVID-19 to the stop, doctors are encouraging thousands of people to collect? The answer, for many in health care is simple: racism is a major public health problem causing very first crown. Without action, they say they will postdate it. “Pales crown risk compared to all the other ways in which we can die,” says Dr. Dorothy Charles, a family medicine resident at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and an organizer of the living races Justice Group blacks White coats. “Addressing the root causes [of racial inequality] is essential to remain at this point than at home.” To be cautious positions safe, some doctors have taken, out of concern that mass gatherings could contribute to new peaks COVID-19 cases. “It makes me wince at various levels,” Dr. Katie Passaretti, a physician infectious disease North Carolina-based, NBC News said in May. “It is a framework for the further spread of COVID-19 is shocking.” Trevor Bedford, a virology researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, speculated on Twitter that each day could lead to protests between 1500 and 3000 the crown additional infections across the country, providing about 600,000 people a day nationwide protest. “The damage of systemic racism are real and extremely dangerous,” he wrote Bedford. It is “The hope that the protests could lead to a lasting reform. It is a cruel twist that the US inability to control the epidemic of police brutality must protest rooted dangerous.” These risks are real, but also many doctors, it is worth it. Doctors have linked the protests in cities around the country, and signed an open letter to 1,200 health experts he says that the protests of fear COVID-19 gearboxes must not be closed. In the letter, a harm reduction approach for capture calls, the promotion of protesters and police officers wearing masks and keeping social distance. He calls also for the police crowd control tactics to stop using that transmission of the virus could help, such as tear gas or mass gas arrests (which pushes cough) (which force people a long time in cramped spaces spend). “We support [interracial] justice protests vital to public health and national threats to the health especially of the blacks in the United States. We are able to show this support protesting safer rescue practices without diminishing capacity protesters and demand the change of gathering “, reads the letter. “This should not be confused with a permissive attitude in all meetings, especially protests against the stay-home jobs.” More than 7,000 medical interns of a letter she signed for elected officials that require more robust measures of responsibility of the police and of the reforms, including records of deaths and injuries involved in police custody death by officers in police custody, the immediate suspension occur to diversify the prohibition of excessive force and for police standards. “We are experiencing a career boost health and promote well-being, while the law enforcement agencies, individuals, institutions, the government and its laws, rooted in white supremacy-the same people they kill, we want to heal,” the letter reads. The researchers also show their practical support. Many scientists on June 10 to show using the hashtag #ShutDownSTEM that stop temporarily their work with blacks life count Solidarity movement. Doctors were particularly vocal in their support for the protesters, because it is difficult to find an aspect of healthcare is not affected by racial inequality. police brutality that disproportionately affects people of color, is just one example. COVID-19 is the subtle way to cut a clear representation of health and race. American color were infected, killed in the hospital and crown at higher rates than Americans, not because they are biologically predisposed to the state, but because to racial oppression downstream effects have left more exposed to the virus in white American blacks at home or have it on workplace rather underlying health conditions that complicated recovery and less likely to have adequate insurance and access to health care have. Many of these factors contribute to high rates disproportionately from chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer in the black community. The medical industry is perpetuated a racist system, says Dr. Tsion Firew, an emergency physician at Columbia University in New York City. Firew remembered as a black two students in his class at the New York Medical College, and you hear a racially insensitive comments during their medical training. Even now, says: “When I go to my hospital, is not [different] like New York City. The second you go to the hospital [as a physician], you will be reminded that you’re not part of the majority.” Taken together, these realities in a pandemic reaching further protest supporting COVID-19-man Firew says many doctors even in the midst of an outbreak of infectious diseases. “The consequences we see that racism are related, more or less, our day to day work. COVID has added one additional layer,” says Dr. Arjun Arya, a resident drug emergency Hennepin Health in Minnesota. Image copyright Mary Khrenova / TASS Getty Images “If you find a solution, this solution is worth fighting for.”
The protest is a profound public health intervention. ‘Why so Many doctors claim the protests in mid-19 COVID pandemic
