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    Racism and Covid-19 threaten our health – we can't fight them as separate battles

    Systemic racism and oppression weaken the moral and physical health of the country. Fighting inequality is imperative
    by Renee C Wurth, Marcelius L Braxton and C Lee Cohen Jun 29, 2020 3 minutes
    If we want to succeed in mitigating the harm of the virus, the United States must view the problems of Covid-19 and racism as linked and overlapping. Photograph: View Press/Corbis/Getty Images

    Right now, the United States is reckoning with centuries of systemic racism at the same time as it battles a pandemic. These fights are not as separate as they appear.

    While most other wealthy nations have seen a peak and , the US, despite some states’ concerted efforts at lockdown, saw just a brief ebb in cases. The daily case rate is , higher than it has ever been. This can be attributed to many comparably unique, and the . Yet, a keystone of the Covid-19 problem in the United States is systemic racism; health, housing and employment disparities are the propellant of this fire.

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