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First Name Chauncey
Last Name Mann
Comments The designation of racism as threat to health comes as COVID-19 continues to
ravage the country and people of color continue to be disproportionately affected in cases and
in deaths. Structural inequality and systemic racism have created a perpetual pandemic of their
own. The lust step is to name and acknowledge that those things are true and that people in
power believe that its true. By declaring a crisis we can all begin the work of acccountabihty.