Ah, and we want to make it very clear that people, this city, that as facts become clear, we're gonna put him out.

We're always gonna make sure that we believe the information is accurate.

But once it's factual, once it's clear we're putting it out.

So one of the things that's been discussed in recent days is what do we know about who is being afflicted by this disease?

Who are we losing?

What does it tell us?

Are there some larger realities that we need to look at here?

The answer is yes, there are.

Here is a disease that has hurt people, hurt families in every corner of our city.

Let's be clear.

Every community, every zip code has been hurt by this disease.

Families are grieving right now across every part of the five boroughs, but we also now have information that points out that there are clear inequalities, clear disparities in how this disease is affecting the people of our city.

The truth iss that in so many ways the negative effects of Corona virus.

The pain.

It's causing the death.

It's causing tracks with other profound health care disparities that we have seen for years and decades in this city.

So many people have struggled to get the health care they need who didn't have the money to afford the health care they deserve.

So many people have lived with chronic health care conditions throughout their life, so often associate ID with challenges like poverty.

Um, we're seeing folks who have struggled before really being hit particularly hard by the Corona virus.

Look, that's a blatant inequality, and we don't accept it, meaning we have to fight in new ways.

We have to come up with new strategies to address what is now it documented disparity as you're going to see again every community feeling this pain, some communities feeling it disproportionately, we're gonna help everyone.

And the strategies we have in place are meant, of course, to save the lives of New Yorkers across the board, every part of our city.

But we're going to double down on the strategies that reach people who are the most vulnerable now because we're seeing these very troubling fax.

There's also lessons to be learned.

Why are more African Americans and Latinos affected?

We're seeing this around the country now.

The numbers in New York are not as bad as the disparities disparities we see in other places across the country.

But there still are apparently disparities.

Why?

Well, co morbidity.

I understand that.

But I think there's something more to it.

You know, it always seems that the poorest people pay the highest price.

Why is that?

Why is that?

Whatever the situation is natural disaster.

Hurricane Katrina, the people standing on those rooftops were not rich white people.

Why?

Why is it that the poorest people always pay the highest price?

But let's figure it out.

Let's do the work.

Let's do the research.

Let's learn from this moment and let's learn these lessons and let's do it now we're going to do more testing in minority communities, but not just testing for the virus.

Let's actually get research and data that can inform us as to why are we having more people in minority communities, more people in certain neighborhoods?

Why do they have rate higher rates of infection?

I get the co morbidity.

I get the underlying young this issue But what else is it?

Play our more public workers Latino and African Americans who don't have a choice, frankly, but to go out there every day and drive the bus and drive the train and show up for work and wind up subjecting themselves to, in this case, the virus where as many other people who had the option just absented themselves.

They live in Maur dense communities, more urban environments.

But what is it?

And let's learn from that and let's do it now I'm going to ask our SUNY Albany chief doctor, have it on Rodriguez that had head an effort to do it.

Right now we'll do more testing in minority communities, mouth with more data research done now.

So let's learn now.

Department of Health.