<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...</a><p>They are using race to preferentially treat higher risk groups of people.<p>Sounds like the way you should treat people - higher risk first. Very click bait title.
> But with the Omicron variant now the dominant COVID strain in New York, both the city and state are facing severe shortages in the availability of effective antiviral monoclonal treatments<p>With the Omicron variant now the dominant strain, the evidence is that <i>there are no effective antiviral monoclonal treatments</i>; there are two that seem to be exceptions, but neither one is available or even in trials in the US.<p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03829-0" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03829-0</a>
Yeah the right in the US has always preferred to pretend like racism is an abstract idea rather than an embodied institution, and that the civil rights acts of 1866 and 1964 didn't happen-- or if they did, that disparate impact isn't a doctrine and that reverse racism is a thing.<p>The facts contradicting this position are self evident to everybody living in the United States, but feigning ignorance is a very popular political position at the highest and lowest levels. Just keep quiet, take your payout, and be glad you're not on the bottom rung. applies even to "poor whites" (and always has, even/especially antebellum).<p>So naturally whenever things shake out such that 'poor whites' experience even the tiniest disadvantage, the banners are marshalled and the trumpet is blown. Nothing new under the sun.<p>How about this: maybe we /should/ treat unvaxed minorities before unvaxed whites-- the latter group has infinitely more historical reason to trust these institutions. Or did I miss the bit where we shot Appalachians full of syphilis?