According to CNN, Azar made relevant remarks when accepting CNN's "State of the Union Address" program, which was hosted by Jack Tapper. At the beginning of the program, Tapper pointed out that, The death toll in novel coronavirus pneumonia is approaching 90,000, Azar then blamed the health of Americans, He also said, "Unfortunately, the population of the United States is very diverse, and it is an ethnic group with serious unhealthy concomitants, which puts many people in our community, especially African Americans, and ethnic minority communities at risk, because these people have potential disease health differences and concomitants. This is an unfortunate legacy in the American health care system, and we certainly have to solve it. "