White coats for Black lives: Healthcare workers’ solidarity with the uprising

“I can’t breathe.” The current nationwide uprising against racism is taking place in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Health care workers on the frontlines of the struggle against the virus are acutely aware of the connections between systemic racism and the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on Black, Indigenous and Latino people. On a visceral level, doctors and nurses hear the words “I can’t breathe” from their COVID-19 patients–the exact same words repeated by Floyd George as he was being killed by Derek Chauvin. Healthcare workers are standing up to say that they are not only interested in treating the physical symptoms of illness in their patients, they want systemic change to foster health and wellbeing and an end to institutional racism in medical care. Read more: https://www.liberationnews.org/white-coats-for-black-lives-healthcare-workers-solidarity-with-the-uprising/ Link at end of article: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jyfn4Wd2i6bRi12ePghMHtX3ys1b7K1A/view