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Race and the pandemic: a combustible mixture

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Officials are finding it’s still difficult to talk about race and COVID-19. Fear of stigmatization remains high, says California Surgeon General Nadine Burke Harris, who says she walks a fine line by letting certain groups know about the heightened risks without casting blame on them. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images) In early March, Madalynn Rucker, then 69, agonized over whether to close her Sacramento consultancy office.

On the 16th, she finally succumbed to a barrage of texts and calls from her daughter about the heightened risk of the coronavirus, and told her employees to begin working from home.

That was three days before California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide stay-at-home order. Her daughter was right in more ways than

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