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CDC says racism is a 'serious threat' to public health


CDC says racism is a serious threat to public health
Mary Pflum
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday called racism a “serious threat” to public health, becoming the latest, and largest, U.S.-based health agency to single out racism as having a “profound and negative impact on communities of color” and contributing to disproportionate mortality rates among people of color.
“Confronting the impact of racism will not be easy,” the CDC s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said in a statement published on the agency’s website. “I know that we can do this if we work together. I certainly hope you will lean in and join me.” ....

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