As this year slowly comes to an end, we look back on the historic importance of 2020. The killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and too many others at the hands of the police and the national response have forced a reckoning of the role of racism within American life. As the U.S. is unable to control the spread of COVID-19, the pandemic continues to change the way we live. The Coronavirus has highlighted the failures of the American healthcare system, specifically the disproportionate negative effects for Black people of color. Racism plays a critical role in determining individual health outcomes and the healthcare system can no longer be complicit through inaction.