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Covid-19: Black people and other minorities are hardest hit in US

Dyer, Owen

BMJ (Online), 2020-04, Vol.369, p.m1483-m1483 [Periódico revisado por pares]

England: BMJ Publishing Group LTD

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  • Título:
    Covid-19: Black people and other minorities are hardest hit in US
  • Autor: Dyer, Owen
  • Assuntos: African Americans ; Allergies ; Asthma ; Coronaviridae ; Coronaviruses ; COVID-19 ; Diabetes mellitus ; Infectious diseases ; Meat ; Morbidity ; Mortality ; Native North Americans
  • É parte de: BMJ (Online), 2020-04, Vol.369, p.m1483-m1483
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  • Descrição: The Trump administration acknowledged the issue after a Washington Post analysis found that black majority counties had three times the coronavirus infection rate and almost six times the death rate of white majority counties.1 The excess deaths among African-Americans “are shining a very bright light on some of the real weaknesses and foibles in our society,” said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, adding that at least part of the problem was due to a higher burden of underlying medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and asthma among African-Americans. Racial disparity The current issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),2 shows that its reporting system has gathered racial data on just 534 covid-19 patients admitted to hospital, of about 40 000 admitted so far around the country. Detailed data are lacking, and the 22 Navajo deaths reported so far are not far above the national average death rate, but when the CDC retrospectively reviewed H1N1 influenza deaths after 2009 it found that Native Americans had died at four times the national rate.3 Perhaps the hardest hit of all is an invisible community, the undocumented immigrants.
  • Editor: England: BMJ Publishing Group LTD
  • Idioma: Inglês
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