Dr. Ben Carson, in response to Biden COVID treatment policy, recalls racial discrimination of his youth

Retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson told Fox News on Monday that President Biden's coronavirus treatment prioritization guidance is somewhat reminiscent of the institutional racial discrimination the United States dispatched with by the late 20th Century.

In a fact sheet issued for health care providers by the Food and Drug Administration, the federal agency approved emergency use authorizations of sotrovimab – a monoclonal antibody proven to be effective against the omicron variant – only to patients considered "high risk." 

A person's race or ethnicity was subsequently listed as a factor that has the potential to "place individual patients at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19," adding that the "authorization of sotrovimab under the EUA is not limited to" other factors outlined by the agency.