President Trump abandoned state governments and hospitals to meet critical gaps in protection for healthcare workers with little help from Washington. But that is not the only way in which we let our healthcare workers down. The social media images of healthcare workers holding signs saying “Please Stay Home to Protect Those of Us Who Can’t” should haunt us all. In too many cases, too many of us failed to do our part to reduce the risk to our healthcare workers. As with Covid victims as a whole, the list of healthcare workers who have died disproportionately includes people of color.

Source: The Guardian August 13, 2020 09:00 UTC