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LGBTQ people at higher risk of COVID-19, CDC study shows
abc7chicago ^ | 02/05/2021 | Maggie Green

Posted on 02/05/2021 3:46:41 PM PST by devane617

ATLANTA -- In a new report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that LGBTQ people in the US are more likely to have many of the severe underlying health conditions associated with severe disease from COVID-19.

However, the agency noted that a lack of data around LGBTQ populations in current COVID-19 surveillance systems is preventing more nuanced examination and assistance to these groups.


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I don't get this story? Why are they at a higher risk? I need help following this story.
1 posted on 02/05/2021 3:46:41 PM PST by devane617
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Just another “World ends, women and minorities hardest hit” story.

I don’t believe a word they say.


2 posted on 02/05/2021 3:47:52 PM PST by DarrellZero
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To: devane617

LGBTQ, huh? Thank goodness the + are spared!


3 posted on 02/05/2021 3:49:12 PM PST by cockroach_magoo
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“ The brief also notes that the LGBTQ community is more likely to be uninsured, more likely to not have access to equitable medical care, more likely to live in poverty or be housing insecure, more likely to smoke or have asthma, and more likely to experience depression or anxiety than the general population. All of these risk factors are compounded for people of color within the LGBTQ community and transgender people, especially transgender people of color.”


4 posted on 02/05/2021 3:53:34 PM PST by HollyB
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To: devane617
*Now* they care about nuanced reporting.
Dontcha know that *every* cough and death are Covid-19?

5 posted on 02/05/2021 3:53:57 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: devane617
CDC: Sexual Orientation Disparities in Risk Factors for Adverse COVID-19–Related Outcomes, by Race/Ethnicity — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United States, 2017–2019

"This analysis found that several underlying health conditions that increase or might increase the risk for more severe COVID-19–related illness were more prevalent among sexual minority persons than heterosexual persons, both within the overall population and within specific racial/ethnic groups. Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic populations have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and the increased prevalence of certain risk factors among sexual minority members of these racial/ethnic minority populations is of particular concern."

6 posted on 02/05/2021 3:54:38 PM PST by Sooth2222 (“Taxation without representation is tyranny.” -James Otis (1761))
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To: cockroach_magoo

Same here...I’m far more concerned about the + than any other group. Can’t live without the +!


7 posted on 02/05/2021 3:55:07 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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Well, while anyone ‘can’ get HIV it really is far more common among gay men. The CDC data shows they’re about 40x more likely to contract it. Why? Just the shear mechanics of what they do has a higher transmission rate.

...similar for other viruses & disease. I’d guess the numbers are primarily around gay men but they didn’t want to single them out - so we just get told ‘LGBTQ’ people.


8 posted on 02/05/2021 3:56:27 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: devane617

Interesting claim that their pets - black people and gays - are more at risk from covid-19.


9 posted on 02/05/2021 3:57:14 PM PST by plain talk
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“Why are they at a higher risk?”

There you go, looking for logic and reason. All you need to know is that LGBTQ are “marginalized people long suppressed by the hetero white patriarchal hegemonic structure.” Don’t ask questions!


10 posted on 02/05/2021 3:57:48 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democracy Dies With Democrats)
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To: devane617

BS.

They’re just trying to get onto the social diversity ladder that (also erroneously) said that black people were at higher risk of worse covid results.

First because of nebulous “science” then because of systemic racism and economic conditions. (as if poor white people don’t have the same problems)


11 posted on 02/05/2021 3:59:18 PM PST by Skywise
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To: devane617

More BS


12 posted on 02/05/2021 3:59:27 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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To: devane617; Jane Long; MayflowerMadam; Political Junkie Too; silent_jonny
Heard a new one yesterday "Biden wants to protect LGBTQI people"

So what the hell is the "I" now??

I still don't know what the damn "Q" is. Is it Queer or Questioning... or something else?

We live in an INSANE world now.

13 posted on 02/05/2021 4:00:04 PM PST by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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Quite simple to the Dem side.

Covid has an uncanny method within each molecule of having knowledge of whether it is attacking a black person, an LGBTQ+ person or others. Covid is racist and homophobic./s

A little off topic but the cells of the human body are contextual as well as inter-relational. That is true. So if you feel happy and in love, cells in your toes and your entire body feel and respond to it. Same with anger and sorrow. I think that is interesting. Part of how stress and anxiety lead to health problems, apparently.


14 posted on 02/05/2021 4:00:07 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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LGBTQ people at higher risk of COVID-19, CDC study shows

So the Chinese Wuhan Flu is Queer?

15 posted on 02/05/2021 4:01:43 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: nutmeg
I think you answered your question with your last sentence.

-PJ

16 posted on 02/05/2021 4:02:03 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Yup.


17 posted on 02/05/2021 4:05:42 PM PST by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: devane617

just another step in God’s way of cleansing the perverted gene pool because aids didn’t work...


18 posted on 02/05/2021 4:06:15 PM PST by heavy metal (your reward will be in heaven not on your paycheck...)
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To: devane617

God had a grand design.

IMO < the farther you go from that grand design, the more
likely you’re going to need warranty service.

Not really trying to come down on people for their choices,
but this seems rather logical to me.


19 posted on 02/05/2021 4:07:32 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: devane617

So?

So are old people and the only thing the left did was target them for elimination.


20 posted on 02/05/2021 4:09:30 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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