A letter signed by nearly 1,300 public health and infectious diseases professionals, and community stakeholders, says fear of COVID-19’s spread is no excuse to stop people from joining police brutality protests.
A letter signed by nearly 1,300 public health professionals, infectious diseases professionals and community stakeholders says fear of COVID-19’s spread is no excuse to stop people from joining police brutality protests in cities across America.
Instead, it supports the anti-racist demonstrations and suggests ways that demonstrators can limit their risk of infection.
“We are witnessing continuing demonstrations in response to ongoing, pervasive and lethal institutional racism set off by the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, among many other black lives taken by police,” the authors of the letter wrote.
