"A year after the COVID-19 pandemic began to highlight racial disparities in the health care system, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced new rules on Tuesday that will require Michigan health care providers to undergo implicit bias training.
“In the first few months of the pandemic, Black Michiganders represented over 35% of confirmed cases despite making up 14% of our total population. Black and Latino Michiganders were also twice as likely to die from this virus than white Michiganders. But this disparity went, of course, beyond COVID,” Whitmer said, pointing to higher rates of infant mortality and premature death among minority populations...Read all.
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