George Floyd and Our Collective Moral Injury

Abstract

[ ]to me, as a woman of color leading the country's largest public health agency, Mr Floyd's death feels different because it represents a cumulative injury on top of the sustained acuity of health inequities playing out in horrifying details through the COVID-19 pandemic Think ofa collective moral injury as lasting emotional and spiritual impacts on a community when authorities commit actions that violate core moral values and expectations of righteous behavior [ ]agency partners, health care providers, community leaders, and government officials immediately joined us in centering the most affected New Yorkers in their responses to the virus

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