“Donald Trump falsely claimed that New York delayed COVID-19 treatment for white people.”

David Larsen, associate professor of public health in the Falk College, was interviewed for the Poynter story “Donald Trump falsely claimed that New York delayed COVID-19 treatment for white people.” Larsen, a expert on infectious disease and epidemiology, explained that New York state’s public health standards consider being Black or Hispanic a preexisting condition. However, this is no way means that the state withheld treatment from white residents.