White people discriminated against for Covid-19 vaccines, Donald Trump claims
- Donald Trump delivered speech to thousands of supporters in Arizona on Saturday
- Former president twisted facts about Covid-19 vaccines and treatments in New York
The former president seeded racial resentments in remarks that twisted the facts on public-health policy and exaggerated the effects of racially conscious antiviral treatment guidelines in New York.
“The left is now rationing life-saving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating … white people to determine who lives and who dies,” he said during his speech on Saturday night in Florence, Arizona.
“If you’re white you do not get the vaccine or if you’re white you do not get therapeutics … In New York state, if you’re white, you have to go to the back of the line to get medical health,” he said.
Trump distorted a New York policy that allows for race to be one consideration when dispensing oral antiviral treatments, which are in limited supply. The policy attempts to steer those treatments to people at the most risk of severe disease from the coronavirus.
