Group Adams rejects the racist de Blasio strategy to preventing COVID

Kudos to Mayor Eric Adams’ crew for rejecting the racist de Blasio strategy to public well being.

After The Post revealed that the town Well being Division had used race as a key determiner for allocating COVID-testing assets, the brand new crew rapidly opened a slew of latest testing websites throughout the town, undoing the outrageous inequity.

Then-Mayor Invoice de Blasio’s Taskforce on Racial Inclusion & Fairness had ID’d 31 neighborhoods to obtain “precedence” consideration from the town to fight “structural racism” and “white privilege” amid the pandemic. Areas deemed too “white” or “privileged” had been final to get testing assets: Queens’ Center Village, for one, went weeks throughout the Omicron surge with no single metropolis testing facility.

Now it’ll get two new websites, together with three for Staten Island’s equally uncared for South Shore.

However “racial fairness” stays a sizzling thought in public-health circles, with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene additionally looking to discriminate in distributing COVID treatments like monoclonal antibodies and oral antivirals. Group Adams will seemingly need to preserve stomping on this insanity.