Lance Gravlee (2020) broadens the lens on health disparities by using a syndemics framework to explore the interaction of COVID‐19 with systemic racism and chronic health problems. The syndemics concept, developed and advanced by Merrill Singer and colleagues (eg, Singer, 2009; Mendenhall & Singer, 2020), highlights the roles of social and political‐economic forces in promoting and sustaining synergistic interactions among co‐occurring disease epidemics. Gravlee offers a detailed syndemic model, articulating the pathways through which conditions of systemic racism and social distress contribute to the rising and interacting disparities in the impact of cardiometabolic diseases and COVID‐19.