It needs to be made very clear that if an aspect of the decision to deny a patient a ventlator is being based on their pre-existing conditions, many that increase likelihood of death due to COVID-19, it WILL have an inordinate impact on people of color. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/07/metro/massachusetts-officials-release-plan-ration-ventilators-icu-beds-if-need-arises/

I called for a hearing on Racism as a Public Health Crisis because @HealthyBoston has stated, and their data shows, racism influences all social determinants of health & drives health inequities.

In Boston people of color rank at bottom of all health outcomes.

Blacks & Latinos in Boston have highest rates of asthma, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension + others that decrease life expectancy with COVID-19.

If we deny ventilators based on conditions caused in part or in whole by racism it’ll affect POC disproportionately and is racist.