The Issue: The city Department of Health’s decision to consider race when distributing COVID treatments.

The recent decision by the New York state Department of Health to use race and ethnicity as factors in determining eligibility for COVID therapeutics is beyond disturbing (“Racial Medical Care Is Careless,” Editorial, Jan. 2). Apparently New York City is also adopting this policy.

Such decisions clearly violate the Constitution as well as federal statutes. The governor and the mayor owe the people immediate explanations for these decisions, released to the public on New Year’s Eve in order to blunt any criticism.

Why the voters of New York continue to vote for Democrats is beyond understanding. We will continue to suffer from policies such as these as long the Democrats control Albany and New York City.

Kenneth Fitzgerald

Hicksville

Woke warriors play roulette with our health by making race and ethnicity a factor for COVID drugs.

Age is the biggest factor for COVID vulnerability. Some three-quarters of all US COVID deaths have occurred among people 65 or older, says the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Seniors of all races and ethnicities should get top priority for new anti-viral drugs.

Social-justice junkies are sacrificing public health on the phony altar of “equity.”

Richard Reif

Queens

The Health Department’s guidelines for distributing life-saving coronavirus treatments that include considering race and fighting “white privilege” do serve one positive purpose: They give the people of this country a preview of what socialized medical care — the obsession of the left — would look like.

New York City is awash in cash from the federal government, most of which has not even been spent, yet the city is going to be rationing based on criteria it decides are relevant.

The Post is correct — this is racism, plain and simple. And the irony is, many of those paying the taxes to fund this system will be the ones excluded from the treatment.

Joseph Grassi

Port St. Lucie, Fla.

In a final act of insanity upon the citizens of New York, the de Blasio administration proposed a plan to distribute monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID based on race — and guess who’s at the bottom of the list?

The obvious racist and constitutional issues aside, I can only surmise that this is former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s final desperate attempt to “even the playing field” against whites because of his failure to persuade a large percentage of minorities to be vaccinated.

Perhaps he would have convinced more minorities by denying monoclonal antibody treatment to anyone who has not been vaccinated.

In any case, the issue will be moot once Mayor Adams repeals this divisive decision before it ever gets instituted.

Jack Kaufman

Naples, Fla.

This is awful and should be illegal. I hope someone sues the city over this.

Potentially withholding life-saving treatment to someone because of their race — is this really where we are at this moment?

In the future, if we still have a future as a country, this will be strongly criticized. It will be an embarrassment.

But I guess it’s a testament of how crazy and wrong everything has gotten recently.

Steve Preziosa

Deptford, NJ

I totally agree with those who argue that there is structural racism in New York City. It is to be found in the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, as reported by The Post.

The so-called equity plan for distribution of COVID treatments based on race is nothing more than reverse racism.

When a government health agency makes decisions based on race and not science or medical need, this overt racism becomes structural and institutionalized.

Permitting this only sets back Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of a color-blind society, to the tragic loss of all people of good will.

Bob Porch

Marlton, NJ

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