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Charles Stewart Mott
Department of Public Health

College of Human Medicine

Charles Stewart Mott
Department of Public Health
College of Human Medicine

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The Flint Water Crisis and COVID-19 Health Disparities Share Roots in Racism and Classism

Dr. Debra Furr-Holden discusses what she calls “one of the biggest acts of environmental racism in my lifetime” and why similar disparities are now being seen during the coronavirus pandemic with NBCLX. "We've seen during COVID that the disparities that already existed have amplified...often the people who have been marginalized get the first blame, but we know that's not the case." 

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