It would be more than just a symbolic gesture. By Abdullah Shihipar Mr. Shihipar is a public health researcher who leads narrative projects and policy impact initiatives at the People, Place and Health Collective — a research laboratory in the department of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health. March 7, 2021 Romelia Navarro is comforted by a nurse as she wept at the bedside of her dying husband, Antonio Navarro, in St. Jude Medical Center’s Covid-19 unit in Fullerton, Calif.Credit...Jae C. Hong/Associated Press While Black and Latino people make up only 13 and 18 percent of the U.S. population, respectively, as of November they account for more than 50 percent of the country’s Covid-19 hospitalizations. In Los Angeles County, deaths among Latino people have increased more than 1,000 percent since November, nearly triple the rate for white residents. Native Americans have been nearly twice as likely as white people to die from Covid-19.