Widespread protests have broken out across the United States in response to the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many other black Americans at the hands of police. Demonstrations have also erupted in the UK, Australia, France and several other countries in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and in protest at these countries’ own domestic cases of institutional racism.
The fact that these protests are happening in the middle of a pandemic raises certain issues regarding the spread of the virus, but also they highlight deep inequalities that exist due to structural racism and its effects on people’s health.
It is no coincidence that the people who are most at risk of dying due to institutional racism are also those who are most at risk of COVID-19.
Read the full article on The Conversation website, written by Lakshmi Manoharan, Medical Epidemiologist in Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health (Nuffield Department of Medicine)
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