Deprioritizing People With Asthma for the Covid-19 Vaccine Is a Racial Justice Issue

The CDC says the condition doesn’t put people at a greater risk for severe Covid-19, but there’s an equity argument to be made

Dana G Smith
Momentum
Published in
4 min readFeb 10, 2021

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On Monday, Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley tweeted that excluding asthma from the list of medical…

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Dana G Smith
Momentum

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