If you are white and living in New York City, and need COVID treatments, you may be out of luck. The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene revealed on their website that when considering wh gets COVID treatments will be based solely on race and ethnicity. This policy was revealed shortly after Christmas, so it’s a Bill de Blasio policy. If Eric Adams doesn’t eliminate this racist policy, then he will be nothing more than De Blasio 2.0.
The most at risk people, regardless of race or ethnicity should be given COVID treatments. At least, that’s how things used to go before the communists took over.
New York City will take a patient’s race into account when distributing potentially life-saving COVID treatments, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene revealed on their website.
The city will “consider race and ethnicity when assessing individual risk,” reads the agency’s official guidance from Dec. 20, which adds that “longstanding systemic health and social inequities” can contribute to an increased risk of dying from COVID-19.
The guidance applies to both the distribution of monoclonal antibodies and oral antivirals like Paxlovid and Molnupiravir.
“Monoclonal antibody treatments have averted at least 1,100 hospitalizations and at least 500 deaths among people treated in New York City,” the city said in October.
The race-based approach in treatment has already begun to have real-world consequences. One Staten Island doctor said he filled two prescriptions for Paxlovid this week and was asked by the pharmacist to disclose the race of his patients before the treatment was authorized.