COVID-19 exposed health disparities in Oklahoma and around the nation. How do we end them?

“It seems that … a lot of those conversations are lost on my colleagues, whether it be that they are tired of hearing the rhetoric, or they don’t want to touch the subject, or because there’s so few minorities represented in the body it’s just not a priority for them — not sure,” said Pittman, who is African American and Native American. “But it is definitely something that we know exists.”