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Advocates, lawmakers press for health equity measures as legislative session heats up Yehyun Kim :: CT Mirror Dawn Cook prays along with others who came to a protest at Bushnell Park in June. “I hope it will be a momentum to make substantial changes,” Cook said. A month into the legislative session, advocates are turning a spotlight back on an issue that failed to gain traction at the state level last year, even as the coronavirus pandemic exposed stark disparities in health care: declaring racism a public health crisis in Connecticut and passing reform to address long-standing inequities. In June, following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police and amid a health crisis that has disproportionately harmed communities of color, cities and states across the country took the symbolic step of declaring racism a public health crisis. In Connecticut, 20 municipalities, including Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven, Simsbury and West Hartford, have adopted the declaration, alo

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