Charts: RACE IS REAL: Disproportionate number of black Americans are dying from Covid-19, research shows


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[This gives me hope for Africa… that more will drop dead. And yes, we are different and NO, it is not because whites are racist or cruel that these blacks are dying. They clearly have a susceptibility that we do not have. From these weird figures, it seems that blacks are 2.4 to 2.5 times as susceptible to COVID-19 than whites. This is good news. I had said before that I think they are 2x more susceptible than whites, and hopefully in Africa, that number will be even higher.  Jan]
  • Black Americans are getting Covid-19 and dying at disproportionately high rates, a growing body of research suggests.
  • A new report shows that counties in which at least 13% of residents are black – which make up 22% of all US counties – account for more than half of reported coronavirus deaths and cases.
  • Two recent CDC studies also reveal that black Americans have higher hospitalisation rates than would be expected for their share of the US population.

 

The amfAR report examined 3,100 US counties, and found that 677 of them – 22% – were “disproportionately black” (meaning at least 13% of residents are black). Based on publicly collected data from January through mid-April, the researchers found that more than half of the US’s coronavirus deaths and cases were reported in those counties.

Other data from around the US supports the report’s conclusions. Though not all states and cities are tracking the races of coronavirus patients, those that do are finding that black Americans die from Covid-19 in alarmingly disproportionate numbers.

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In Michigan, black people make up 14% of the state population but represent 41% of the coronavirus deaths, according to state health officials.

Illinois’s numbers are similar: of the state’s 2,974 deaths, 998 of them were black patients, about 34% of the total fatalities. The state has about 1.8 million black residents, or about 14% of the population.

In North Carolina, where the population is 21% black, 35% of the state’s Covid-19 deaths were black patients.

About 28% of coronavirus fatalities in New York City, meanwhile, were black patients, and 34% were Hispanic, according to the New York State Department of Health.

A man wears a face mask and surgical gloves to prevent Covid-19 spread, at the New York City subway train in New York, United States on March 11, 2020.

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In Richmond, Virginia, 48% of the population is black, but these residents account for nearly 60% of Richmond’s coronaviruses cases.

“The fact that more African Americans in the city are dying of this, that’s not something new that’s specific to Covid-19,” Danny Avula, the director of Richmond and Henrico Health Districts, previously told Insider. “That’s a revelation of the underlying inequities that we have always dealt with, and this is just one more thing that’s bringing that to the forefront.”

Black Americans are disproportionately hospitalised with coronavirus

Two reports published in April from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the extent to which black Americans account for more hospitalisations than they should based on their share of the US population.

The first report, from April 17, found that 33% of the US’s hospitalised Covid-19 patients are black, though black people make up 18% of the overall US population.

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A second report from the agency, published April 29, showed an even higher gap in Georgia.

The CDC found that 83% of people hospitalised with Covid-19 in the state during March were black, even though only 32% of the state’s population is black.

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Underlying conditions increase the risk of severe Covid-19 infections

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said the reason the coronavirus has hit black communities hardest has to do with the prevalence of “underlying medical conditions – the diabetes, the hypertension, the obesity, the asthma.”

These preexisting health issues put patients at higher risk of developing severe cases.

According to the CDC, more than 89% of Americans hospitalised with Covid-19 have had underlying health problems.

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The most commonly reported conditions were hypertension and obesity, followed by chronic lung disease (including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), diabetes, and heart disease.

The amfAR report noted that disproportionately black counties in the US have higher rates of underlying health conditions like diabetes and heart disease. Those counties also experience more air pollution, which is linked to asthma.

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, black Americans were 20% more likely to die from heart disease than white people in 2017. In 2014, black people in the US were more than twice as likely to die due to asthma than white people, and four times more likely to be be admitted to the hospital for the condition.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.co.za/black-americans-disproportionately-hospitalized-with-coronavirus-2020-4



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