Black Americans are disproportionately getting sick and dying from the coronavirus.
It's a plague that has laid bare, not just vulnerabilities in the U.S. hospital system, but gaping disparities in access to quality health care across minority communities.
"New York City, the overall infection rate was about 20%. We have some ZIP codes where the infection rate is over 50%," Cuomo said Tuesday. "It gets back to our conversation about injustice and inequality."The disparities aren't limited to New York. In Michigan, where cases peaked at more than 1,700 a day in late March, the differences in Covid-19 infections and deaths when compared with the overall population are stark.
"I think this country has changed," Duggan said. "While we saw race discrimination in its most brutal form in murder, the racial inequity in this country is far broader."The reasons why minorities tend to suffer from poorer health and deadlier Covid-19 outcomes are complex, and like many disparities affecting blacks in the U.S., are rooted in the American slave trade.
"The lack of store access in these communities — sometimes called food deserts — may contribute to poor diet, obesity, and other diet-related illness,"African Americans and Latinos in the U.S. are also more likely to lack health insurance than are white people. "Many people of color are essential workers who just cannot stay home, despite the fact that that's being recommended across different areas of the country," she said.
"Covid entered our society when there are already major health inequities to begin with that come from unjust differences in living and working conditions," Krieger said.To fully assess just how bad things are and where public health officials should target testing, researchers say they need more data. Some lawmakers and civil rights groupsfor not releasing more details on the racial breakdown of coronavirus infections and deaths.
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