A new report commissioned by medical journal The Lancet revealed a host of widespread policy failures that resulted in thousands of preventable deaths, worsened racial disparities and further widened the inequalities between rich and poor.
Doctors inject sisters Claudia Scott-Mighty, left, Althea Scott-Bonaparte, who are patient care directors, and Christine Scott, an ICU nurse, with their second shot of the Pfizer vaccine on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Bronxville, N.Y. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen).
(CN) A new assessment by medical journal The Lancet lays out in shocking detail the repercussions President Donald Trump’s health policies had on the wellbeing of the American people, with the report attributing thousands of avoidable deaths and increased racial and economic disparities to his administration.
The Scott sisters work with coronavirus patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville.
Althea Scott-Bonaparte and Claudia Scott-Mighty are patient care directors, while Christine Scott is a nurse in the ICU.
The sisters say they want to set an example for others by trusting science, and therefore, trusting the vaccine. We re in this together, we re fighting this together, and we re getting vaccinated together, Scott-Bonaparte said. This is how we ve always done everything as sisters.together.
2021/01/09 03:42 A doctor prepares to administer a vaccine injection to Claudia Scott-Mighty, a patient care director at NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital on Frid. A doctor prepares to administer a vaccine injection to Claudia Scott-Mighty, a patient care director at NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Bronxville, N.Y. The second round of the vaccine increases its efficacy to 95%, according to Pfizer. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen). FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, file photo, a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 sits on a table at Hartford Hospital in Hartford,. FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, file photo, a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 sits on a table at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. New research suggests that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in two contagious variants of the coronavirus that erupted in Britain