{"id":1231584,"date":"2022-01-22T12:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1231584"},"modified":"2022-01-22T12:24:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T17:24:29","slug":"cornell-law-professor-suing-to-stop-new-yorks-race-based-covid-therapeutics-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cornell-law-professor-suing-to-stop-new-yorks-race-based-covid-therapeutics-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornell Law Professor Suing To Stop New York\u2019s Race-Based Covid Therapeutics Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcornell-law-professor-suing-to-stop-new-yorks-race-based-covid-therapeutics-guidelines%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1231584&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Cornell Law professor William A. Jacobson is suing the acting commissioner of the New York Department of Health in order to stop the state from providing COVID-19 treatments based on race.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobson, acting on his own behalf and not as a member of the Cornell community, filed the lawsuit last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2022\/01\/im-suing-to-stop-new-yorks-racially-discriminatory-covid-therapeutic-guidelines\/\">writing<\/a> on his website, Legal Insurrection, that \u201cI am serving as the plaintiff in this case because whether or not medical treatment should be provided should not be decided by the color of someone\u2019s skin. I call on New Yorkers of all races and ethnicities to unite against these discriminatory government guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/multiple-states-prioritizing-covid-care-based-on-race-thanks-to-the-fda\">reported<\/a>, multiple states, including New York, issued guidance that prioritized treatment based on race, letting certain medical comorbidities take a back seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn New York, racial minorities are automatically eligible for scarce COVID-19 therapeutics, regardless of age or underlying conditions. In Utah, \u2018Latinx ethnicity\u2019 counts for more points than \u2018congestive heart failure\u2019 in a patient\u2019s \u2018COVID-19 risk score\u2019\u2014the state\u2019s framework for allocating monoclonal antibodies. And in Minnesota, health officials have devised their own \u2018ethical framework\u2019 that prioritizes black 18-year-olds over white 64-year-olds\u2014even though the latter are at much higher risk of severe disease,\u201d the Washington Free Beacon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/food-and-drug-administration-drives-racial-rationing-of-covid-drugs\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Further, as The Daily Wire&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ny-department-of-health-prioritizes-people-of-color-for-oral-covid-19-therapies\">reported<\/a>, New York\u2019s triage stated that \u201cNon-white race or Hispanic\/Latino ethnicity should be considered a risk factor, as longstanding systemic health and social inequities have contributed to an increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Jacobson noted, America First Legal demanded acting commissioner Mary Bassett end the racist preferences, but the New York Health Department defended them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have now filed a class action lawsuit as the named plaintiff in the United States District Court in and for the Northern District of New York, seeking, among other things, a declaration that the racial preferences are illegal and an injuction [sic] ordering New York State to stop this medical racism,\u201d Jacobson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobson noted that the complaint alleges:<\/p>\n<p><em>Using a patient\u2019s skin color or ethnicity as a basis for deciding who should receive lifesaving medical treatment is appalling. And directing medical professionals to award or deny medical care based on immutable characteristics such as skin color, without regard to the actual health condition of the individual who is seeking these antiviral treatments, is nothing more than an attempt to establish a racial hierarchy in the provision of life-saving medicine. Worse still, New York\u2019s racial preferences ignore the obvious race-neutral alternative policy of making antiviral treatments available to patients of any race who can demonstrate risk factors, such as advanced age, obesity, a compromised immune system, or other medical conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The complaint further alleges that the Health Department\u2019s claim that race is simply used as a risk factor is no defense:<\/p>\n<p><em>New York\u2019s policy creates a racial hierarchy in the distribution of life-saving COVID-19 medication. Non-white and Hispanic\/Latino individuals who test positive for COVID-19 automatically qualify for oral antiviral treatments, while an identically situated non-Hispanic\/Latino white individual is ineligible unless he demonstrates a \u201cmedical condition\u201d or \u201crisk factor\u201d that increases his risk for severe illness from COVID-19.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>The Department\u2019s policy fails any level of constitutional scrutiny. Even if the Department has an interest in ensuring that only the most at-risk patients will receive scarce antiviral treatments, the policy\u2019s racial preferences are not closely or narrowly tailored to achieving that interest. The Department could have effectively pursued the same goals through the obvious race-neutral alternative of requiring all patients to have enumerated medical conditions or risk factors in order to receive antiviral treatments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jacobson is represented by Gene Hamilton of America First Legal Foundation as well as Jonathan F. Mitchell, Adam K. Mortara, and the law firm of Consovoy McCarthy PLLC.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornell Law professor William A. Jacobson is suing the acting commissioner of the New York Department of Health in order to stop the state from providing COVID-19 treatments based on race. Jacobson, acting on his own behalf and not as a member of the Cornell community, filed the lawsuit last week, writing on his website, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}