The New York Times scapegoats medical workers in the tragic death of Dr. Susan Moore
The
New York Times has used Dr. Moore’s tragic death to promote its racialist narrative of American society and the COVID-19 pandemic.
On December 23, the
Times published a sensationalist article by John Eligon under the headline, “Black Doctor Dies of COVID-19 After Complaining of Racist Treatment.” Without any investigation into the circumstances of the case, the
Times sought to hold up Dr. Moore’s death as an example of a vicious form of racism that pervades the health care industry.
“Lying in a hospital bed with an oxygen tube hugging her nostrils,” Eligon begins his article, “the Black patient gazed into her smartphone and, with a strained voice, complained of an experience all too common among Black people in America.”