Posted on 03/31/2020 12:16:23 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Every morning at 10 a.m., the Maryland health department publishes an update to its sobering data about the rapidly spreading coronavirus. The latest state data showed the number of cases among people ages 10 to 19 more than doubled over three days. It documented how the number of cases among women in Maryland surpassed those among men. And it registered cases as they’ve sprung up in county after county after county.
But absent so far is a breakdown of cases by race. Some lawmakers say publishing this information while the pandemic is ongoing is vital so that state officials can monitor any disparities as they arise. “We’ve always known that, historically, there’s been health disparities in communities of color. It’s important to get ahead of it," said state Del. Nick Mosby, a Baltimore Democrat who is running for City Council president.
Mosby started using social media Sunday to push the state to begin publicly tracking cases by race, in addition to age, gender and geographic location. Doctors across the country are making similar calls as some researchers caution black people in America could be hit especially hard by the public health crisis.
Baltimore’s population is more than 60% black.
Asked during a Monday news conference whether the state could report cases by race, deputy state health secretary Fran Phillips said, “I’m not aware that we have looked into that.”
A spokesman for Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, Mike Ricci, said Monday he didn’t have an update on Mosby’s request. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not yet made data available by race, either, although high-profile Democratic lawmakers are pushing for more public information....
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I’d like to see a breakdown of interracial violence....
If they would stop talking about race, a lot of the problems might go away. Up until right now, I never even wondered about the racial breakdown of it.
Not sure how you feel about it????
What’s with the swing LEFT on this board because of a virus?
Or were there just always more leftists than we thought??
Here’s what to think.
It’s a bunch of NONSENSE used to suck money away from whites for one reason or another later on and keep people like sharpton in business and dems getting black votes.
What a crybaby race of losers. Get jobs, stop knocking women up and then never seeing them again, essentially stop living like animals in the black community and that will help more than this study ever could.
I think we have to know much more...like existing illnesses...
I’d like to know the purpose of this information and how they plan to use it and respond to it.
It’s one thing to use it for research later. But, what is the purpose now?
If these jackasses are already focused on “racial disparities,” then I’d say this viral outbreak was never as serious as it’s been made out to be.
Exactly! Remember that Pelosi tried to jam a socialist “wet dream” into the Coronavirus relief bill.
“Not enough (insert approved group to oppress here) are getting infected! They’re raaaaaaacist!”
Or as you postulate, farrakhan saying whites are oppressing his “people” with corona.
Someone must suspect that COVID-19 is RAACISSS
Injecting race into this might force them to admit some uncomfortable truths about IQ; I’ve observed bizarre, unsafe behavior by coworkers of certain groups (and the worst offenders weren’t black).
So even viruses are “racist” now?
I thought the msm (and Coumo), just days ago were telling us the virus didn’t discriminate.
There are lots of stats on that — black on white/Asian etc. violence is far higher than vice-versa.
But to ME, that isn’t a statistic that can help fix things - the “black” noted in Baltimore are folks in the ghettos. The “whites” and “hispanics” who commit crimes are also mostly “ghetto” based.
Violence seems to be based on the environment and culture.
Many African-Africans namely folks just migrated are highly cultured and law-abiding. But their culture is different. They hate the rap culture and lifestyle.
That’s key - changing culture.
nah, a lot initially believed this disease disproportionately hit East Asians / Orientals.
With the hit to Iran and Italy that is disproved.
There was/is a rumour that Black people aren’t hit by the virus either.
No racial/ genetic OR blood type is proven. It MAY be that Africans and / or blood type 0 are less at risk, but there’s not enough data to conclude.
I don’t think we can use the data available now to focus on any particular genetic or blood type group. We do know that the old and the respiratory-weak ones are at higher risk so should focus on them
I am tired of race issues and in particular black issues always being front and center. I am tired of hearing how we just have to do something for blacks and how we must care about them. I am tired of them and their handlers period.
And what are they gonna do if they find that coronavirus affects minorities more? Protest against it?
CC
Always looking at ways to pin this on whitey
Racists.
Ditto
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