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COVID pandemic exposed inequities involving age, race, political affiliation
ABC News ^ | May 15, 2022, 8:48 AM | LIONEL MOISE andHaley Yamada

Posted on 05/15/2022 6:45:26 AM PDT by deport

The United States has hit a grim milestone: 1 million COVID-19 deaths. During the past two years the virus has posed a deadly risk, but it hasn’t affected every person the same way. The pandemic has highlighted inequalities that have already existed -- and exposed new disparities between age, race and political affiliation.

According to December 2021 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an unvaccinated person was 53 times more likely to die of a COVID-19-associated illness compared to a fully vaccinated person with a booster dose.

Native Americans are over 2.5 times more likely to die of COVID compared to white Americans, according to the CDC data, which also showed that African-Americans are more than 1.5 times more likely, and Hispanic Americans 1.1 times more likely.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid; politicial; race
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1 posted on 05/15/2022 6:45:26 AM PDT by deport
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According to December 2021 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an unvaccinated person was 53 times more likely to die of a COVID-19-associated illness compared to a fully vaccinated person with a booster dose.

I find this claim extraordinary and wonder how they came to this conclusion.

2 posted on 05/15/2022 6:47:31 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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“53” times ...

Would need to see those data.


3 posted on 05/15/2022 6:48:06 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: AndyTheBear

They made it up.


4 posted on 05/15/2022 6:49:25 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: deport

Authored by two racists propagandists.


5 posted on 05/15/2022 6:50:23 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: deport
The United States has hit a grim milestone: 1 million COVID-19 deaths

Bullfauci !

6 posted on 05/15/2022 6:51:58 AM PDT by tomkat ( SOTU = FUBAR )
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What were the percentages Democrat vs Republican? Homeowners vs renters?


7 posted on 05/15/2022 6:52:47 AM PDT by sanjuanbob
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Has the death rate shown a bump and how much compared to say the bummer years 2013 unheard of flu????
Nobody wants to talk about it.


8 posted on 05/15/2022 6:54:14 AM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count )
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Gee...I wonder just what could cause those “inequities”...Bad HABITS, perchance?


9 posted on 05/15/2022 6:55:21 AM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned.s )
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"I find this claim extraordinary and wonder how they came to this conclusion."

I agree. The "53 times" is WAY more disparate than any previous claim I've heard.
10 posted on 05/15/2022 6:56:25 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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I am looking at the linked report...and I can’t see how it supports that figure yet. From what I’ve seen so far it simply doesn’t.


11 posted on 05/15/2022 6:57:39 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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I suspect they came to this conclusion in the same way they have arrived at all their conclusions.

They simply made it up.


12 posted on 05/15/2022 6:58:16 AM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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Like the number of deaths attributed to Covid, as well as, the data presented here bares little reliability as being factual. Just renewed attempts of pushing the ineffective jab.


13 posted on 05/15/2022 6:59:59 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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The racial stats conveniently omit Asians. Obesity and related issues like diabetes and high blood pressure are strongly associated with Covid morbidity, and blacks and Hispanics probably have higher rates of those than whites and - especially - Asians. As for Native Americans, I thought they had high vaccination rates, but I could be wrong. At any rate, alcoholism and other health issues are probably high in that group.


14 posted on 05/15/2022 7:00:46 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Anybody who believes a word of this drivel probably already got the death jabs and is ready for their 3rd or 4th booster.

Nothing but lies!


15 posted on 05/15/2022 7:01:40 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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What a typical liberal article. Sob, sob, sob, wah, wah, wah. I can hear the teeth gnashing out here on the left coast.

The article says a major reason the poor got sicker was they don’t have Internet access or email accounts to sign up for vaccination. We need a new Federal Program for that.

You can just hear the complaining if the medical authorities had NOT done vax reservations on line...”You are making our people take off from work to go sign up in person. They don’t have cars and have to use the dangerous public transportation. This is racist!”


16 posted on 05/15/2022 7:01:53 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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Overdose deaths spiked immediately after the emergence of COVID-19 in 2020 before tapering later in the year. Researchers pointed to increased drug use, riskier use conditions such as isolation amid social distancing restrictions, and a drug supply that has become far more lethal because of synthetic opioids. Data from 2020 showed the highest overdose death rates were among people ages 25 to 54, Black people, and American Indian/Alaska Native people.
Meanwhile Fentanyl imported from Mexico is killing thousands and this Biden government doesn't do anything. Guess there's no money in that problem for the Big Guy.
17 posted on 05/15/2022 7:03:02 AM PDT by dblshot
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As of today, 15 May 2022, Johns Hopkins claims 6,263,525 deaths worldwide. From January 2020, this is twenty seven months.

Sources: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/ and https://www.census.gov/popclock/world

( 6,263,525 "global deaths" / 7,895,975,339 global population ) x 100 = 0.079 percent mortality rate over twenty seven months. The annual mortality rate would be less than half that.

ABC's "grim" news ignores the general fact that about one percent of a first-world nation dies off each tear, or in the case of the US more than three million each year. When placed in a correct frame, Covid has been a con.

A "grim" con.

18 posted on 05/15/2022 7:05:39 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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biden proved the kung flu is a scam when he waltzed into the white house, disbanded trump’s “operation warp speed”, opened our southern border, and continues to covertly spread over 2,000,000 (2 million) nondocumented unvaccinated invaders across our country during a supposed “global pandemic” while anthony fauci, the cdc, the nih, the world health organization, the enemedia, hollywierd, and the majority of our elected representatives sit back and watch...

trust our government to protect you and your health at your own peril...


19 posted on 05/15/2022 7:07:28 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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We need to execute enough white journalists to make the death toll equitable.


20 posted on 05/15/2022 7:07:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Affirmative action is systemic/institutional racism/sexism targeting straight, white males.)
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