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Curtis Hertel Jr.: “They tried to end the use of the Social Vulnerability Index…”

Featuring: Curtis Hertel Jr., Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Michigan, District 7

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Senator Curtis Hertel Keynote Address at the ICDP Expanded Executive Committee Meeting 3.17.2021

Published | Video Starts at 25:16

… but we have also learned that people being poor and race are a huge factor because of the limits of the discrimination in our health care system against those people. They tried to end the use of the Social Vulnerability Index in order to get vaccines to poor and communities and people of color. They tried to end that. Now I want you to think for a second how much you have to dislike people in order to try to prevent them from getting something that you don't even believe works. (25:16–25:28)

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Asserts that some attempted to stop using the Social Vulnerability Index for vaccine distribution.

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