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With vaccines widely available and case numbers dropping, cities around the US are dropping restrictions and focusing on “getting back to normal” for the summer. But for many—after more than a year in isolation—“normal” feels scary. Experts say we need to talk more about what transitioning to a more open society will be like—and what our new normal will be like.
In February 2021, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) tweeted, “No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care?” The tweet was designed to promote a podcast that was ostensibly focused on structural racism yet did not include experts on the topic. The subsequent uproar highlighted the harm caused by deep intentional ignorance of the term structural racism, defined in the American Journal of Public Health as “policies and practices…that confer advantages on people considered White and ideologies that maintain these advantages, while simultaneously oppressing other racialized groups.”
Epidemiologists and virologists around the world are scrambling to understand and prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. There is another group of researchers who are concerned about a slightly different foe: the mental health pandemic.
This article from Elite Daily details how you can incorporate anti-racism into your own life to show that actions are louder than words.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health Riana Elyse Anderson joins Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita and Anjalee Khemlani to discuss racial disparities of those impacted by the coronavirus.
As activists around the country continue to organize protests against police brutality, many people are talking to their parents about racism for what may be the first time.