During a rally on Saturday in Florence, Arizona, Donald Trump claimed that white people are being discriminated against in the allotted COVID-19 treatments.
"The left is denigrating white people and rationing life-saving drugs because of their race," Trump said.
January 16, 2022.
You get it based on race. In New York state, if you're white, you have to wait in the back of the line. If you are white, you go to the back of the line.
The Wall Street Journal opinion article was titled "New York's Race-Based Preferential Covid Treatments."
According to the article, there is a shortage of COVID-19 treatments and New York state has published guidelines on how to allocate them to those in need.
According to the guidelines, non-white race or Hispanic/Latino should be considered a risk factor because of the long standing systemic health and social inequalities that increase the risk of death from COVID-19.
Utah and Minnesota have published guidelines.
According to data from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hispanic or Latino people die at a rate of 2.1 times that of white people.
If you're white, you don't get the vaccine or the therapy. It's unbelievable to think that way. "Black people don't want it, white people don't want it, nobody wants it", said Trump at his rally in Arizona.
It's not clear what the former president meant when he said that white people don't get the vaccine.
Black and Hispanic vaccination rates lag behind White ones in almost half of the US.
Several Black people in the crowd behind Trump are wearing "Blacks for Trump" t-shirts and cheering.
People wearing 'Blacks for Trump' t-shirts are often positioned behind Trump at his rallies.
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