Mineflayer latency with bot.equip function

[random-logic]

I sometimes get "Error: must be holding an item to place" when I call await bot.placeBlock function right after I called await bot.equip on the correct block. This error only happens when I play on servers, which makes me think that this is happening due to the latency (from my understanding it tries to placeBlock before it equips successfully). I am already using promises with these two functions, and I have tried waiting for milliseconds and physics ticks in between these two, but the error still happens. Any idea how to account for latency?