Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Hearing on Racial Health Disparities

C-SPAN: The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis held a virtual hearing on racial health disparities and the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical doctors and health care advocates shared data and research on disparities among communities of color, including African Americans, Latinos, Asian and Pacific Americans, and Native Americans. One emergency medicine physician on the panel told members that racial health disparities were “profound and persistent” and that “living in this country has essentially made Black Americans sick.” Several members also addressed the racial tensions and protests across the U.S. surrounding the of death George Floyd. 

This report was published on the network on June 4.