Posted on 06/15/2020 5:22:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DETROIT -- African Americans are disproportionately likely to say a family member or close friend has died of COVID-19 or respiratory illness since March, according to a series of surveys conducted since April that lays bare how black Americans have borne the brunt of the pandemic.
Eleven percent of African Americans say they were close with someone who has died from the coronavirus, compared with 5% of Americans overall and 4% of white Americans.
The findings are based on data from three COVID Impact surveys conducted between April and June by NORC at the University of Chicago for the Data Foundation about the pandemic’s effect on the physical, mental and social health of Americans.
Pre-existing conditions and limited access to health care have been identified as reasons black Americans have been particularly susceptible to the virus. Experts and medical professionals say the longstanding effects of structural racism and generational trauma exacted upon black Americans in the centuries following slavery also cannot be ignored.
“The health inequities that we’re seeing here are nothing new, because we’re starting in a place where during slavery, we had black women who were enslaved and were being experimented on by white male physicians,” said New York-based Dr. Uché Blackstock, a former associate professor at the NYU School of Medicine and the founder of Advancing Health Equity. “So our healthcare system is founded on racism, and our communities have been essentially made sick by racism. We carry the highest disease burden in almost every parameter. We were already in a crisis.”
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The Chinese created this virus in a lab. Its a well known fact they don’t like blacks and are intent on colonizing Africa. Maybe this was engineered to clear the African continent for Chinese expansion. Anyway, if they think the virus is racist, they should demand reparations from President Xi.
I don’t know anyone who has or had the virus
I made that same statement here in the past.
Then, Our daughter’s brother in law tested and confirmed, quarantine... pneumonia... ambulance.. hospital... anti-malarial... few days home. BUT HE WORKS IN A HOSPITAL?
His wife...same.
A nephew and wife... same. Another medico.
MY BROTHER!
Was recovering from a massive brain tumor surgery in a rehab center.
Closed to visitors because of COVID, next a notice that a patient tested positive for COVID in his rehab center ... then he had it!
A few days in the hospital and he was recovering, two days no symptoms and no fever; good to go!
A few days later he had a relapse.
He was always lean, muscular, and in good shape, I thought he would be ok.
It was not to be.
He died.
Stay healthy.
I know people who say they know people who have had it. In fact, one woman says she got it twice within a twelve week period.
A friend’s ex husband died of Covid19 a few weeks ago. He spent at least two weeks, maybe a month, on a ventilator. He was black.
A friends niece is a NYC nurse. The majority of Covid patients in her ICU were Hispanic. Immigration status unknown.
This communist bat virus has a pattern.
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