Listen to hosts Samantha Spiers and Cameron Boozarjomehri end their two-part series on the CDC! On this episode, they discuss the letter some CDC employees sent to the CDC Director calling for the CDC to address the "ongoing and recurring acts of racism and discrimination" against black employees. Discussion includes an overview of the letter, statistics on health outcomes in black people compared to their white counterparts, and should racism be declared a public health crisis.
Sources:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/13/889769017/cdc-employees-call-out-agencys-toxic-culture-of-racial-aggression
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cdc-employees-call-on-agency-to-declare-racism-a-public-health-crisis/
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_07-508.pdf
https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6986780-Cdc
https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/aahealth/index.html#
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK425844/
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/200424
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/race-and-health/
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/race-ethnicity.html
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-inequalities-cdc/507-a770cfc8-9967-4359-b84d-12684c6aa46f
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