Biden’s Health Equity Task Force to Spotlight Social Disparities

Health equity will be in the spotlight as the Biden administration ramps up its Covid-19 response with multiple public White House briefings a week, including one scheduled Friday, to give updates on its progress.

Advocates say the solutions to societal inequities in health care are a tough challenge.

Communities of color, people with disabilities, and other marginalized groups have been disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, both in contracting the virus, needing to go to the hospital, and dying. For example, Covid-19 death rates were twice as much for Black Americans as the rate for white Americans last summer, ...