The Impact of Police Brutality on Covid-19 and Medical Mistrust

Violence in law enforcement is affecting trust in medicine when it’s needed the most

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
5 min readOct 1, 2020

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Last week, a grand jury’s decision not to charge any of the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor set off a new wave of protests against racist police brutality across the United States. The protests have been…

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.