"In her efforts to put herself at the top of Joe Biden’s list of VP candidates, Michigan’s Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been working on making herself famous by imposing the most draconian measures on her citizens of any governor in America.
...The letter accused all Michigan health care workers, who are literally putting their lives on the line every day during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic of being racists—even if they don’t know they are.
In her letter, Dr. Khaldunis offered suggestions about how racist health care providers can address their “implicit biases.”
"...The purpose of this letter is to make sure you are aware of our current understanding of how this disease is impacting racial and ethnic minorities, and alert you to ways you can address this in your current practice.
...The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has identified alarming racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
... Research has also shown that, once care is accessed, both implicit and explicit bias by healthcare providers contributes to health care disparities.
One of the factors associated with implicit bias is how we are socialized.
We all have implicit biases and the difficulty is that we don’t realize that we have them – assumptions about individuals and groups can cause medical providers to not use a patient’s individual circumstances or objective data to guide clinical management.
Explicit biases include those that are more explicitly racist, that may also not be fully recognized...
You can read the entire document here.
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Cases and Deaths
...The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has identified alarming racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
... Research has also shown that, once care is accessed, both implicit and explicit bias by healthcare providers contributes to health care disparities.
One of the factors associated with implicit bias is how we are socialized.
We all have implicit biases and the difficulty is that we don’t realize that we have them – assumptions about individuals and groups can cause medical providers to not use a patient’s individual circumstances or objective data to guide clinical management.
Explicit biases include those that are more explicitly racist, that may also not be fully recognized...
You can read the entire document here.
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