Posted on 05/17/2023 4:11:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A pair of new studies from the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the toll of racial disparities in health for Black Americans is even starker than we knew. From 1999 to 2020, Black Americans experienced 1.63 million excess deaths compared to white Americans and COVID widened the gap even further. Amna Nawaz discussed the significance of this data with Dr. Lisa Cooper.
Audio at link to this.
I was going to make an off color joke but I think I’ll skip that today in case anyone might take it seriously
I’ll take the joke seriously and laugh.
Too lazy to check the article to see whether or not they checked to see if differences in obesity rates was a significant confounder.
Covid virus is clearly racist.
I thought about posting the graph showing blacks are killing other blacks at phenomenal rates, but I don’t care to go looking it up.
Everybody knows anyway, the reason for blacks dying at higher rates than whites.
What’s the statistic? 1 in 15 black males can expect to be shot (by another black male) in their lifetime?
I flat out don’t believe that Covid killed blacks at higher rates than white people. The amazingly low rate of Covid in Africa bears this out.
80,000 excess deaths per year over 20 years... Take away the gang banger deaths and there is almost no discrepancy.
So what were the causes of these excess deaths?
Clearly compensations are due.
IIRC there are also issues with high blood pressure and reticence to do colon cancer screenings. The BP issue could be part genetic. Diabetes also an issue of course with the fat positivity movement in the black community.
Shame on you PBS, the word “data” is plural, so your headline should read, “Data show massive disparity-———”.
You see, people are pushing back about reparations being “for slavery”, so they’re having to cook up all these OTHER reasons why society should pay people for no reason.
Gee, that is not too difficult to understand why.
Sub-Saharan Africans take HCQ and Ivermectin routinely for common African diseases. This likely had an effect on their rates of Covid.
Africa and Ivermectin
https://archive.is/2021.08.28-042601/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1431339779703017477.html
Regarding the disproportionate effect of C19 on African Americans: African Americans are Zinc and Vitamin D deficient. (See citations below.) This is further proof that Zinc and D play a critical role in the defense/defeat of Corona virus, esp. when used with chlorquine. Onset of C19 may include pinkeye, and loss of taste and smell. These are symptoms of Zinc deficiency.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20147474 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12966353 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/04/bill-sardi/modern-medicine-knew-of-zinc-cure-for-coronavirus-infections-a-decade-ago-but-failed-to-put-into-practice/
Zinc is critical, but too much is bad. So negro systems automatically downregulate its absorption because Africa is so rich in Zinc.
Likewise Blacks in North America are deficient in Vitamin D because their dark skin inhibits sunlight conversion D. Much more sunlight days in Africa than in Buffalo, NY!
Blacks have higher rates of prostate and colon cancer, too, because of Zinc and D deficiencies.
Mainstream medicine and the regieme will not admit to any of this; they want the disparity in Covid deaths to be a function of “racism.” And they don’t want to admit that D and Zinc supplementation might have simply been sufficient to stay the epidemic without social controls and vaccinations. True of Blacks, and true of all of us. Government should have immediately recommended supplementation — but they were not looking for a solution.
I suspect obesity is pretty rare in most of sub-Sahara Africa. At least compared to the 'land of plenty' (and land of fast food, sugary, and lard laden snacks). And black Africans probably are a lower age demographic than American blacks.
Also, I suspect that the immune systems of the Africans probably laugh at CoVid. They say 'hah!, I fight nastier bugs before breakfast (if I can find breakfast)'.
Also, most of the sub-African population were popping ivermectin and/or HCQ in their normal diet - as opposed to the United States, where our CDC/FDA made it difficult for their citizens to use.
So... not a straightforward comparison between the two populations.
The large consumption of Ivermectin and HCQ there is to blame for almost non-existent black or white population COVID deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa.
It’s a fact that blacks in America have more comorbidities so simply there is going to be a higher death rate for them.
Blacks and other minorities hardest hit.
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