No one is safe from getting the disease. However, black people are dying of the virus at an alarmingly higher rate than other races and ethnicities.
. Jones, who is also a visiting fellow at Howard University, worked at the CDC for 13 years, focusing on identifying, measuring, and addressing the racial bias in the medical system. “This is the time to name racism as the cause of all of those things. The overrepresentation of people of color in poverty and white people in wealth is not just a happenstance. … It’s because we’re not valued.”of people impacted by a specific viral outbreak.
Even though the CDC isn’t releasing the data , there are places releasing their own data related to COVID-19 and race. Illinois is one such place., as of Saturday, April 4th, 107 of Cook County’s 183 COVID deaths were black. Further, 70 percent, or 61 of Chicago’s 86 reported deaths, are black. Black people only make up 26 percent of Chicago’s population.
Medics wearing personal protection equipment , transport an African American patient showing COVID-19 symptoms from his apartment to Stamford Hospital on April 04, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. Cases of coronavirus have been unusually high in the African American community. John Moore/Getty, Milwaukee’s COVID cases came from an affluent white suburb. Once it reached the black community, it spread like wildfire.
“It will be unimaginable pretty soon,” infectious disease doctor and associate dean at Howard University’s School of Medicine, Dr. Celia J. Maxwell, tells ProPublica. “And anything that comes around is going to be worse in our patients. Period. Many of our patients have so many problems, but this is kind of like the nail in the coffin.”
As writer Michael Harriot points out in a Twitter thread on Saturday, April 4th, many of the health issues that exacerbate COVID-19 are diseases that disproportionately affect black people. Things like asthma or other breathing issues, heart disease, kidney disease, liver disease, severe obesity and diabetes exacerbate COVID-19 symptoms. In Cook County, 81 percent of the black people who died suffered from either hypertension or diabetes. Some suffered from both.
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