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Respond to the following prompts in either written form (1000 to 1250 words) or a short-form video essay (5 - 7 minutes in length).The COVID-19 Pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on society, highlighting pre-existing inequities in healthcare and access to resources:Mortality rates provide an even clearer picture of the racial disparities of the coronavirus. Research by Gross et al. [3] found that the risk of death from the coronavirus was 3.6 times higher for African Americans and 1.9 times higher for the Hispanic/Latino population compared to non-Hispanic whites... The causes for such racial disparities are numerous and interrelated [7,9]. As noted by Hooper et al. [10], the reasons for racial disparities in health outcomes "include social and structural determinants of health, racism, and discrimination, economic and educational disadvantages, health care access and quality, individual behavior, and biology" (p. E1). None of these factors can be identified as the sole, or even primary factor, for such health disparities; rather, it is the confluence of such factors that result in ethnic minority groups suffering more from health crises. Socioeconomic status, however, plays an important role in explaining disparity in racial health outcomes. Low income individuals are more likely to live in densely populated areas, live in areas surrounded by health risks, are geographically distant from grocery stores and medical facilities, live in multigenerational households where social distancing may be difficult, not have medical insurance or paid sick leave, may work on "front-line" jobs where exposure is high (or be unemployed) and use public transportation [7,11].You are a public health official appointed to your local Pandemic Taskforce by the Mayor. Prepare a statement, addressed to the Mayor, that includes the following:

-Briefly recount a public health issue (either your own, a contact, or an editorial account) related to the themes of equitable distribution, social justice, or professional responsibility in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

-Propose a course of action to address this public health issue by completing the first five steps of the six-step process of microallocation decisions described in chapter 14.Your statement should include at least three sources, not including any references used to recount the public health issue. The textbook may serve as one of your three sources. For video essays, please submit your resources in APA format in the submission text field along with your recorded essay or in the recording itself if you use slides. See the grading rubrics for full requirements. Source: Roberts, J. A., & David, M. E. (2021). The Pandemic within a Pandemic: Testing a Sequential Mediation Model to Better Understand Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Preventive Behavior. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 9(2)