Silvergirl

inspired by...

https://x.com/i/status/2081026939171868803

My first go at making a comic✌️

Pathogens, for instance, are notoriously democratic. Had African Americans not been excluded from early AZT therapy on the basis of flawed HIV treatment clinical trials that largely excluded them, would the number of HIV infected African Americans be lower today? Would the number of all domestic AIDS cases be lower, considering that Black Americans today constitute half of all the HIV-infected? It's too late to know now, but not too late to do better racial recruitment for the next HIV clinical trials.

This fallout extends beyond infectious disease. For example, Donna Christian-Christensen, M.D., who represents the U.S. Virgin Islands in Congress, has observed that the percentage of Black Americans who are insured is lower than that of white Americans, and the cost of caring for these uninsured people raises the rates in healthcare costs of all Americans. She said, "We're getting to the hospital late, using much more expensive care: we're really driving up the cost of health care."

In fact, a decade ago, research by Harvard School of Public Health Professors Ichiro Kawachi, M.D., and Deborah Prothow-Stith, M.D., explained this public health phenomenon in detail and even quantified it, emerging with what was popularly referred to as the "Robin Hood Index". The shorthand is that public health suffers more in the nations with the greatest inequities and wealth, and that the middle class suffers nearly as much as the poor from inequities.

In the United States, which has, for example, one of the world's greatest disparities and income between the haves and have nots, we have not only the greatest health disparities but the greatest health-cost burdens for the mostly white middle class. In short, whites should care about quality medical research for African Americans because its dearth has generated needless pain, suffering, anger, and costs that continue to permeate the fabric of our entire nation: it is not only a racial tragedy but also an American tragedy."

Epilogue- Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington

1. canonically female (no variation)

2. canonically the protagonist of her story (if it’s an ensemble cast you have to say you can legitimately see her as The main character)

3. your personal #1 favorite character in that story (ties are acceptable)