Health officials have long said there is a strong case for considering race as one of many risk factors in COVID-19 treatments. And there is no evidence that race alone is being used to decide who gets medicine.
Some conservatives are taking aim at policies that allow doctors to consider race as a risk factor when allocating scarce COVID-19 treatments, saying the protocols discriminate against white people.
JP Leider, a senior fellow in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota who helped develop that state’s allocation criteria, noted that prioritization has been going on for some time because there aren’t enough treatments to go around.“You have to pick who comes first,” Leider said. “The problem is we have extremely conclusive evidence that across the United States are having worse COVID outcomes compared to white folks. ...
Omicron has rendered two widely available antibody treatments ineffective, leaving only one, which is in short supply. St. Louis-based SSM Health, which serves patients in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, required patients to score 20 points on a risk calculator to qualify for COVID-19 antibody treatment. Non-whites automatically got seven points.
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