D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser: The coronavirus pandemic is casting a “spotlight” on health disparities among African Americans
How lawmakers respond to the pandemicBowser, whose city is among major metropolitan areas including New Orleans and Detroit thought to be impending Covid-19 hot spots, called for “national and local actions” to address health disparities Sunday.
In response, Lightfoot said her administration put together a "racial equity rapid response team" made up of "health care providers, public health clinicians, as well as stakeholders in community — faith community, block clubs." Michelle Lujan Grisham, Democratic governor of New Mexico, also touched on health disparities in combating the coronavirus in a Sunday interview. Native Americans in Lujan Grisham's state have been disproportionately affected by the disease.
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