NBC Medical Contributor Encourages Protests: ‘Racism Is a Public Health Issue Just as Much as Covid’
‘We’re already seeing that protesters are trying to do this in a safe way’
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PATEL: “We need to be out there more to actually offer testing, to let the very communities that we have neglected in this crisis know that there is a safe place where they can get testing, it’s free and that we can help to understand how if you can’t socially isolate at home because you live with five other people in a one-bedroom apartment, then that’s our — that's on us, Nicolle. We need to figure out how to facilitate our country from expressing their concerns, their outrage, frankly, and acknowledging that racism is a public health issue just as much as COVID is.”
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