Medical education often teaches that disease is a byproduct of an individual's choices & behavior (smoking, alcohol, dietary habits, etc.) when in fact socioeconomic factors, of which structural racism is a key driving force, have the largest impact.
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President Barron placed a face mask on the Lion Shrine today, reminding folks to mask up while they're on campus.
"Do you want to be the person that sends everybody home?" Barron said.
I want to talk about the transphobic incident involving the Bloomsburg Fair.
This is the latest in a relentless series of vile slurs directed at Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine — a highly skilled and accomplished member of my administration.
I nearly died 4 years ago for this very reason. My urine was black, I lost mobility in my lower body, my muscle tissue was rapidly deteriorating, and my kidneys were failing...but 6 doctors said my creatinine levels were “normal” for my demographic. medical racism is murder.
Friday night in State College, PA.
@GovernorTomWolf we need another lockdown.
@penn_state you may be able to enforce social distancing on campus, but students in State College = students in bars. Take that into account.
Black women with a college education or greater have a higher infant mortality rate than white women who have a high school diploma. In fact, the infant mortality rate is highest for Black women with a doctorate or professional degree....because racism.
In Opinion
"Eventually, doctors will find a coronavirus vaccine, but black people will continue to wait, despite the futility of hope, for a cure for racism," writes Roxane Gay.
https://t.co/kDdhdoOEAo
Or has this time become so critically tragic -- 100,000 dead of Covid, 41 million jobless, racism unleashed -- partly because we have the worst president in history?