snapecastic109

1. Is it true that COVID-19 is really a “great equalizer”? I read in the Atlantic that some ethnic groups, especially African-Americans, are getting higher rates of infection and death than others because our immune systems are products of our early childhood environments.
   1. In the short term- should health policy focus on protecting vulnerable demographics such as African Americans during this pandemic? is there anything that vulnerable POC should do to protect themselves?
   2. In the long term- do you think that this pandemic has exposed the deep seated health inequalities that pervade America? What policy measures are public health policy experts proposing to help alleviate all the socioeconomic issues- housing discrimination, poverty, environmental racism- that cause health inequalities? Are social and health policy conflating?
2. For Dr. Weintraub- how do you think the power of language has shown itself during this pandemic? Do you think that people only started panicking when the WHO declared it as a pandemic because it sounded scarier?

Thanks so much. I'm a high schooler and I have always been tremendously interested in public health. I am looking forward to reading your answers.