So these are my thoughts. First, I am not a parent, so I have no stake in that side of this debate. However, I AM an extremely overstretched #hospitalist doctor who has seen both hospitals in #AnnArbor balloon to unmanageable patients levels three times now, with...
patients being housed in simulation centers, in team/break rooms, in ED hallways. And that is without schools being open locally, but we cover a large catchment area, and schools never closed in other counties.
I think we could maybe have made elementary schools work with in class instruction. These young kids are the ones most needing the structure of in person, and all kids are in one classroom with one teacher, so could control the flow.
I absolutely think middle and especially high schools should stay closed until the fall, and I agreed with keeping them closed. You can survive high school with online learning, and they are the most likely to go to multiple classrooms, socialize, party, and spread COVID
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So I read this trainwreck of an article from beginning to end. I have thoughts. This article is clearly racist, "blaming" underrepresented in medicine minorities (Black and Latinx Americans) for not being "good enough" to be cardiologists, and also whiny ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JA…
At start, while Dr. Wang provides useful historical context, he already introduces his (wrong) opinion on why URM numbers are low: "AAMC short‐term goal was missed because of a paucity of qualified candidates, particularly blacks" qualified URMs are not mentored in colleges...
He blames "holistic admissions processes" for creating a track only for whites/Asians based on objective tests and grades, and "subjective" criteria for Blacks/Hispanics causing "Severe academic difficulties for underrepresented minorities were noted as early as the mid‐1970s"