Racism is a Public Health Crisis
A frontline health-care worker talks about the public health crisis caused by reopening and why fighting racism is essential to saving lives.
Elizabeth Lalasz is a registered nurse at Stroger Hospital in Chicago, a steward with National Nurses United, and delegate to the upcoming 2020 California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee Convention. She contracted COVID-19 and then returned to work on a COVID-only unit that primarily served people incarcerated in Cook County Jail.
A frontline health-care worker talks about the public health crisis caused by reopening and why fighting racism is essential to saving lives.