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The Story of COVID-19

Jerome Adams sits in front of a microphone, wearing his military uniform. Behind him reads, "We're In This Together."
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams attends a roundtable on donating plasma (July 30, 2020).

Surgeon General Jerome Adams says that People of Color are "socially predisposed" to COVID-19.

04/10/2020

The Story of COVID-19
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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams attends a roundtable on donating plasma (July 30, 2020).

Adams says that there is no scientific basis to believe that People of Color are "biologically or genetically predisposed to get COVID-19," but that they are "socially predisposed to coronavirus exposure, and have a higher incidence of the very diseases that put you at risk for severe complications of coronavirus" (Summers, 2020).