Wolf and Lt. Gov. Fetterman announce Pennsylvania COVID-19 Response Task Force for Health Disparity Report

Posted Friday, August 14, 2020 12:00 am

In mid-April, Gov. Tom Wolf and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman announced the creation of a COVID-19 Response Task Force for Health Disparity to help communicate issues about how the pandemic is affecting the state’s minority and marginalized populations.

“About a month after the first cases of COVID-19 were identified in Pennsylvania, I asked Lt. Gov. Fetterman to chair a new task force that would identify any differences in health outcomes for different populations,” Wolf said. “And to make recommendations to ensure every Pennsylvanian, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, or socioeconomic background, has equal opportunity to survive and thrive during this pandemic and beyond.”

After months of weekly meetings and outreach from task force members to marginalized community members, the task force completed its report and presented it to the governor earlier this week. Yesterday, the governor and lieutenant governor highlighted the recommendations in the report at an event at the York County YMCA, joined by Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine.

View the report at https://www.governor.pa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200813-COVID-19-Health-Disparity-Report.pdf.

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Wolf and Lt. Gov. Fetterman announce Pennsylvania COVID-19 Response Task Force for Health Disparity Report

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