I wonder where the systemic and structural racism is coming from.

Dec 2020, CDC:

https://archive.ph/2lA8a https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/21/promotes-justice-cdc-appears-recommend-essential-workers-vaccine-race-based/

‘Promotes Justice’: CDC Appears To Recommend Some Essential Workers Skip The Vaccine Line Based On Race

VIRGINIA KRUTA ASSOCIATE EDITOR December 21, 2020 6:49 PM ET

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided guidance for distributing the coronavirus vaccine, and it appeared to take race into consideration.

The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP), a CDC committee that provides recommendations for the implementation of vaccine programs, divided the population into groups and then offered suggestions as to which groups would be prioritized as the vaccines were made available.

https://archive.vn/wqnmM https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/11R4pzBvZz/cdc-on-vaccine-rollout-racial-an/c/

CDC on vaccine rollout: "Racial and ethnic minority groups under-represented among adults >65" NYT: 'whites & fathers deserve vaccine least'

https://archive.vn/Z7Y2e Jason Compson‏ @JCompson_III 18 Dec 2020

Yes. Here's a recent presentation from the CDC on vaccine implementation: Notice that they express concern over the "ethical principle" that white people are too overrepresented among adults >65, relative to the more diverse essential workers.

https://archive.vn/IOM7z https://web.archive.org/web/20201218081246/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-11/COVID-04-Dooling.pdf

Racial and ethnic minority groups under-represented among adults >65

https://archive.vn/ZRIwG

Jason Compson‏ @JCompson_III 17 Dec 2020

Wow. In the @nytimes, a doctor explains why the CDC chose to de-emphasize the elderly, even though doing so would've saved lives: "Older populations are whiter...Instead of giving add'l health benefits to those who already had them, we can start to level the playing field a bit"

Later in the piece another doctor, named Marc Lipsitch, explains that teachers should not be considered essential workers for the purpose of being given priority vaccines by the CDC because, and I quote, "they are often very white."

A third expert, an economist named Elise Gould, counters Dr. Lipsitch that teachers should be prioritized. Why? Because the families they teach are disproportionately "Black and Brown", and those groups would benefit more than white people.

So to sum up, in this single article by @JanHoffmanNYT, three experts--Schdmit, Lipsitch, and Gould-- say that more white people dying will "level the playing field", teachers are "too white" to deserve a vaccine, but that their "Black and Brown" students make them deserving.

Apr 2020, Vermont:

https://archive.ph/tT0ib https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/12i3zMgQRN/

Equity: Vermont denies vaccine from non-BIPOC under 50 till Apr 5-19. US vaccine passports, rumor: UK unvaccinated denied chemo, transplants

https://archive.ph/TEcHi

Wesley Yang‏ @wesyang 1 Apr 2021

Non-BIPOC Vermonters presently have to be over the age of 50 to sign up for the vaccine. Vt Governor just announced that any BIPOC person over the age of 16 can sign up.

CDC withdrew guidance that would prioritized essential workers before the elderly (who are the by far the most likely to die from covid) because the latter group was disproportionately white after the guidance attracted controversy.

But here's Scott just going for it.

Apr 2020, CDC:

https://archive.ph/6pwQp https://www.theblaze.com/news/racism-public-health-threat-cdc

CDC declares racism a 'serious public health threat'

The CDC will use COVID-19 funding to make 'new and expanded investments in racial and ethnic minority communities'

PAUL SACCA |April 09, 2021

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that racism is a "serious public health threat." Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC, released a statement on Thursday claiming that racism "affects the health of our entire nation."

"What we know is this: racism is a serious public health threat that directly affects the well-being of millions of Americans," Walensky continued. "As a result, it affects the health of our entire nation."

In July, the Minneapolis City Council approved a resolution that declared racism a public emergency. Following the death of George Floyd, Minneapolis passed the resolution, which states: "Racism in all its forms causes persistent discrimination and disparate outcomes in many areas of life, including housing, education, health, employment, public safety and criminal justice; exacerbated further by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis."

The Vermont city of Burlington also declared racism a public health emergency in July. The city announced the "Community Declaration of Racism as a Public Health Emergency," which would "commit to coordinate our work and participate in ongoing joint action, grounded in science and data, to eliminate race-based health disparities and eradicate systemic racism."

In December, racism was deemed to be a public health crisis in Louisville, Kentucky.

Overall, 190 cities, counties, and states have declared racism to be a public health issue, according to the American Public Health Association.