The answer to that racist question was no, just as it had been way back when Frederick Hoffman suggested that African Americans were less healthy because of personal moral failings, and just as it was in Bryan when people suggested the poor and the sick had only themselves to blame. African Americans were more likely to be poor, to live in crowded households, to be “essential workers” (grocery store clerks, truck drivers, delivery people, nursing assistants), to suffer from obesity or diabetes or high blood pressure, to have lousy health insurance or no insurance at all, to have crummy access
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