The coronavirus’ brutal impact on African Americans and other minorities may never be fully known because of consistent data gaps on race and ethnicity
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And in South Dakota — which houses the nation’s third-largest Native American population — officials are not collecting race or ethnicity data for deaths at all despite indications that minority populations across the board are bearing an outsize burden of the disease. “The same determinants that lead to worse health outcomes are the same determinants that lead to an increase in what we see with police brutality,” said Hilton Bucholz. “If you look at the intersectionality of pandemic and protest they share the same vein. It’s the same disease.”
"Unless we use data and focus concretely on race, we are going to let Covid-19 bake in a whole new generation of disparities."HHS spokesperson Mia Heck told POLITICO that the administration plans to finalize that contract at the end of the month, and that HHS has a "foundational national strategy" that includes efforts to boost testing in socially vulnerable areas and a series of initiatives aimed at supporting Covid-19 care for minorities.
California still faces access and data gaps making it hard to ascertain just how badly the coronavirus has affected people of color, said Bob Kocher, a venture capitalist and former Obama administration official who’s now advising the Golden State’s testing efforts. Of the state’s roughly 1,000 testing sites, only about 100 are run by the state — the state-run labs are reporting racial and ethnic data but the rest are not.
Health officials have also encountered cases where hospitals are reluctant to collect the details for fear the results will reflect poorly on them or the surrounding community — especially when others are not doing it consistently either.
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