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https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-coronavirus-racial-disparities/ A doctor at Ala Stanford University, but her office is now a parking lot, a corner, and a sidewalk outside the Philadelphia Baptist Church. Stanford University leads a mobile team of doctors who bring free Covid-19 tests to Philadelphia’s worst-hit neighborhood: the underserved black community. Across the United States, blacks are contracting and dying of Covid-19 at an extremely disproportionate rate, and in some areas, they are not tested for the virus as frequently as whites. |
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/04/coronavirus-disproportionately-impacts-african-americans/ The epidemic caused a virulent storm of death and disease, swept black communities across the United States, and revealed the deadly legacy of inequality |
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https://chinese.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/racial-ethnic-minorities.html The impact of COVID-19 on the health of ethnic and ethnic minorities is still apparent; however, current data show that the burden of disease and death is disproportionate among ethnic and ethnic groups. |
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https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/04/09/why-are-blacks-dying-at-higher-rates-from-covid-19/ In general, these structural conditions and microscopic results are equal to the root cause of the disaster, the consequence of which is the increase in exposure, diagnosis and coronavirus deaths of blacks. Now we must ask how this happened in the richest country on earth. How does this inequality have such a broad impact? Well, racial inequality was incorporated into the recipe for creating the United States of America. The inequality of neighbourhood resources and healthcare systems is a manifestation of this secret. Moreover, when a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic occurs, inequality increases rather than decreases. Obviously, this is "the price we pay for inequality," as American University Sociology Professor and former Director of the Center for Health, Risk and Society Kim Blankensee said. It's time for America |
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https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/04/09/why-are-blacks-dying-at-higher-rates-from-covid-19/ Blacks with race data in almost every state have higher shrinkage rates and higher COVID-19 death rates. |
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https://twitter.com/mychinapress/status/1247476272059449350 12% of blacks in the global pandemic account for 40% of deaths |
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