Posted on 08/17/2020 12:53:53 PM PDT by george76
Black, Latino and American Indian and Alaskan Native people were disproportionately hospitalized for Covid-19, according to a new analysis of 12 states' populations published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
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In a nearly two-month period from late April to late June, there were 48,788 cumulative Covid-19 hospitalizations in the states that reported race and hospitalization data -- Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
"The share of the hospitalizations of White patients was substantially smaller vs. their share of the population in all 12 states," the authors found.
The authors found that the opposite was true for Black patients -- their percentage of hospitalizations exceeded the percentage of their representative proportion of state population. This was highest in Ohio, where Black patients accounted for 31.8% of hospitalizations and are 13% of the population. Minnesota, Indiana and Kansas also had particularly high rates of hospitalizations for Black people compared to the population.
Of the 11 states that reported the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations for Hispanic patients, 10 had hospitalizations for Hispanic patients that were higher than their representative proportion of the state population. This was most pronounced in Virginia, where Hispanic people accounted for 36.2% of hospitalizations, compared with 9.6% of the population.
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American Indian and Alaskan Native populations, but in some of these states there was a substantial disparity. For example, in Arizona, this group account for 4% of the state's population but 15.7% of the hospitalizations. In Utah, this group accounted for 0.9% of the state's population, but 5.0% of hospitalizations.
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But it wasnt the riots! Oh know. Never that.
There were a bunch of stories like this....
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3832622/posts
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3832748/posts
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3839858/posts
Anecdotal evidence is not trustworthy but...
I recently stopped by a Godfather’s Pizza in my predominately white/Hispanic area of Houston (wearing an N95 mask of course and planning to pop the pizza back in the oven when I got home). The pizza joint had a handful of closely spaced tables tables in the tiny restaurant. Every table was occupied by unmasked customer’s belonging to separate families. Every single eat-in customer was African American.
It seemed to me that in our area most whites believe the epidemic is dangerous and many blacks do not.
Simple solution to the pandemic,,,,Make HCQ and Azithromycin OTC drugs so anyone who develops a cough and/or fever can go the nearest drug store and self medicate with the drugs along with Zinc Sulfate with correct dosage within 48 hours of symptoms and pandemic over.,,,,,instead of waiting a few days to get tested and 5 days for the results,,,,if over 60 years of age,,,,youre dead.
So if they got the hospital beds, who went without?
It could mean disparity of blood types. O blood type gets much less WuHan than AB. Vitamin D is also a factor. Dark skin absorbs less D from sunshine than does light skin and it is protective, though not proof, against WuHan. The relevant statistic is that almost all WuHan virus patients measured for vitamin D have very low levels.
My deceased wife had cancer 3 times. I took her to Vanderbilt ER each time plus more. I never saw so many Blacks, Muslims, and Latinos.
Studies from countries in Africa that have COVID-19 outbreaks show lower death rates than among African Americans. The primary reason is probably the fact that their populations tend to be younger on average, so that more of the people infected with COVID-19 in Africa are young people who have less serious outcomes worldwide.
An additional reason is likely to be the percentage of people with health conditions like diabetes or obesity that are correlated with adverse outcomes of COVID-19 infections is higher among African Americans compared to residents of African nations.
It is very likely that the ethnic and racial disparities seen are really disparities based on health conditions that simply correlate with race or ethnic group, or even locality.
Trying to make political points based on the effects of a virus shows how far reaching the leftist viewpoint has gotten.
disinfo.
stats were not adjusted for underlying conditions.
demographics not adjusted for percentage of urban population vs State population.
Throwing more wood on the racist white barn fire
Does the study take into account age, diabetes, and other high risk categories?
Yep, the poor, black, and other minority communities are getting high-tech hospital care, while white people are left out. :)
Good points.
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