The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. spoke the most fundamental truth of the coronavirus pandemic more than fifty years before the COVID crisis hit. “Of all the forms of inequality,” he said at the second convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights on March 25, 1966, “injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.”

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