CDC Declares Racism ’A Serious Public Health Threat’

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday labeled racism as a serious threat to public health and said it would take steps to address the matter.

“What we know is this: racism is a serious public health threat that directly affects the well-being of millions of Americans,” Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said in a statement. “As a result, it affects the health of our entire nation.”

Walensky, one of the most public faces of the Biden administration’s coronavirus response, is the latest administration health official to…READ MORE