CDC-backed report claiming ‘white people’ didn’t care if ‘people of color’ died from Covid released by Washington health dept

The DOH posted “A Chorus of COVID – Voices from the Frontlines” on X, claiming the "insight report" would “help us all reflect on lessons learned” during the pandemic. Funding for the report was provided in part through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to the report, “Sometimes white people disengaged on safety when they learned people of color needed help.” However, the document provided no sources to substantiate the claim, or any others made throughout the report.

Ironically, after making the racist and divisive claim, the report added, “Don't foster divisions in our community. It collectively costs us human lives.”

The cover of the report included images of protestors, who rallied in large groups during the pandemic despite the stay-at-home orders and bans on large gatherings to help prevent the spread of the virus.

The report demanded that the DOH use COVID “as an opportunity” to invest in “youth of color” and “incarcerated youth” by “celebrating their gifts” in ways that “don’t stigmatize or typify them when society fails them.”

The report suggested the DOH “get creative” in promoting health crisis materials by working with “BIPOC artists, trans/queer artists of color, women of color of all gender expressions, incarcerated youth and adult artists,” and even by using flash mobs to serve marginalized communities better and achieve “health equity.”

According to the report, “Poor health is often how communities that dominant society marginalizes know and feel what exclusion really is," claiming that "COVID showed several intersecting crises in public health — from the home front to the workforce and practically everywhere else you could imagine.”

The leftist organizations behind the report advocated for having direct control of funds allocated for medical purposes to better serve “marginalized communities,” and that Washington “keep lowering the barriers to accessing funds.” The report also advocated for marginalized communities to have “decision-making power and influence.”

The report then demanded that the DOH “design trainings by and for communities that experience inequities such as mass incarceration, housing and food insecurity, substance use, mental illness, racism, ableism, ageism, xenophobia, sexism, transphobia and other forms of exclusion.”

It also insisted that the DOH “center” illegal immigrants and prison inmates and demanded that material produced by the DOH include pictures of people with “dark to fair skin tones, all body types, ages, gender expressions, hair textures, facial features, [and] economic backgrounds,” but that the focus should be on representing “Black, Indigenous, Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latinx, (and) BIPOC faces.”