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New conservative target: Race as factor in COVID treatment

By TODD RICHMOND front last week after Fox
Associated Press News host Tucker Carlson,
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — former President Donald
Some conservatives are Trump and Republican Sen.
taking aim at policies that Marco Rubio jumped on
allow doctors to consider the policies. In recent days,
race as a risk factor when conservative law firms have
allocating scarce COV- pressured a Missouri-based
ID-19 treatments, saying health care system, Minne-
the protocols discriminate sota and Utah to drop their
against white people. protocols and sued New
The wave of infections York state over allocation
brought on by the omicron guidelines or scoring sys-
variant and a shortage of tems that include race as a
treatments have focused risk factor.
attention on the policies. JP Leider, a senior fellow in
Medical experts say the the Division of Health Pol-
opposition is misleading. icy and Management at
Health officials have long the University of Minnesota
said there is a strong case who helped develop that
for considering race as one state’s allocation criteria,
of many risk factors in treat- noted that prioritization has
ment decisions. And there been going on for some
is no evidence that race time because there aren’t
alone is being used to de- enough treatments to go Nurse manager Edgar Ramirez checks on IV fluids while talking to a COVID-19 patient at Provi-
cide who gets medicine. around. dence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles, Dec. 13, 2021. Associated Press
The issue came to the fore- Continued on next page