.martharaddatz reports on how COVID-19 highlighted racial disparities across the country. “Had she been anything but black or brown I think she would have gotten the care she needed. They would not have sent her home to die,” a Mississippi woman says.
across the country, according to several states' analysis of data.
Still, it's the largest amount of national data to have been provided so far -- and it sheds new light on racial disparities seen in cities and states across the country that have collected such data.Some states had previously begun releasing numbers broken down by race on their own and the rates shocked the nation.
EMS personnel bring a patient into the emergency center at Ochsner Baptist Medical Center amid the coronavirus outbreak, in New Orleans, March 25, 2020. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said “those numbers take your breath away”, and “[the statistics were] among the most shocking things I think I’ve seen as mayor”.
Historically, black populations have been affected differently by the rapid spread of infectious diseases. “The greater proportion of my professional career has been defined by HIV/AIDS… African Americans dying at greater rates from COVID-19 could be a similar moment,” Fauci said. MORE: Make COVID-19 tests, treatment easy to access for black Americans to address health disparities: Experts
Fauci on Tuesday at a White House briefing said that these health disparities have long been prevalent in the African American community and that this pandemic is “shining a bright light on how unacceptable that is.”
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