“The burden of this is falling disproportionately on black Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, lower income workers,' Dr. Richard Besser tells ABC News.
Besser said he is worried that reopening too early will “lead to deaths which could have been prevented.”President Trump said it was likely that there would be more deaths as the country reopens."It's possible there will be some because you won't be locked into an apartment or a house or whatever it is," Trump said. “Will some people be affected? Yes. Will some people be affected badly? Yes. But we have to get our country open and we have to get it open soon.
A CDC study found in the state of Georgia that the proportion of patients hospitalized with coronavirus who were black was higher than expected based on overall hospital admission standards and concluded that “it is important to continue ongoing efforts to understand why black persons are disproportionately hospitalized for COVID-19, including the role of social and economic factors.”
People wear masks and maintain social distance to help stop the spread of coronavirus, while waiting in line to enter a store in Sunset Park, a Brooklyn neighborhood with one of the city's largest Mexican and Hispanic communities, May 5, 2020, in New York.Communities of color and lower income Americans are also more likely to have chronic health conditions, putting them more at risk to falling ill to coronavirus, Besser said.
“Yeah, that's that's the question everyone wants the answer to. And it's the fundamental question that we don't have an answer to,” he said. “We don't determine the timeline. The virus does.”President Trump has used his near-daily briefings to make claims that the Obama administration didn't offer enough funding to replenish medical supplies.
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