Black Americans experience deadly stress as a pandemic and violent racism collide, experts say.
Burke Harris said:"We have to help health care providers understand how trauma affects people's health. It is just like lead poisoning. Doctors can do medical treatment to help reduce the impact of lead on someone's health. But the real answer is to get lead out of the paint."
"In the 1980s at Howard, we started looking at the physiology of racism in the laboratory, looking at blood pressure and cardiovascular events," said Harrell, who said researchers had Black volunteers view films of situations like people being accused of shoplifting or refused an apartment because of race.occurred, and people saw it over and over, and it was worse than anything we were showing people," he said."Now we see the slow-motion lynching of Mr. Floyd.
Harrell said that even during sleep, the brain may still process acts of racism and that blood pressure, which for many people goes down during rest, may not among Blacks.
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