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Chicago: black people are 30% of its population but 60% of its Covid-19 deaths 5/24/2020 Guardian: "A
coalition of organizations and progressive lawmakers at the state and municipal
levels have launched the Right To Recovery campaign, which is aimed at
addressing the “gaping holes in our public health and social safety net
infrastructure, as well as the brutal inequality built into our economy”. Amika
Tendaji, the Right to Recovery lead for the group Southside Together Organizing
for Power, which has been working on housing issues related to the crisis,
praised progressive measures to provide relief to communities hard hit by the
pandemic, including legislation proposed by state representative Delia Ramirez
to temporarily cancel rent and mortgage payments in Illinois. “We’ve worked
really hard to put politicians in place that are responsive to their
communities,” Tendaji said. But Tendaji expressed concern that top officials
aren’t taking bold enough action, calling the image of Lightfoot as a
progressive mayor a “fallacy” and calling for structural change. “This is
systemic racial injustice,” Tendaji said."
California: Coronavirus Impact: Black COVID-19 patients nearly 3 times more
likely to be hospitalized, study finds 5/22/2020 ABC: "Even more alarming,
the study also revealed one in four African American patients have to be moved
to an intensive care unit for life-saving treatment compared to just one in 10
white patients. Lockhart believes, in part, access to testing is the issue. "Our
African American patients are coming in later and sicker. So, it's not about
necessarily who was tested, but when," he said."
Black Americans and Latinos nearly 3 times as likely to know someone who died of
COVID-19: POLL 5/22/2020 ABC: "Thirty percent of black adults and 26% of
Latino adults in the country said they know a victim of the coronavirus, who
died either from the disease or from complications related to the virus. For
white adults, the corresponding figure is 10%. The findings are consistent with
local and national data reported by states and cities and reviewed by ABC News
that revealed racial and ethnic minorities suffer a disproportionate share of
the negative health and economic outcomes from the coronavirus pandemic."
‘A no-win situation’ — Expert weighs in on COVID-19 racial disparities 5/22/2020 Medical
News Today: "For example, non-Hispanic (NH) black and Hispanic Americans are
more likely to end up in occupations that we have newly deemed “essential,”
including, but not limited to, retail work (e.g., grocery stores), sanitation,
farming, meatpacking plants, frontline healthcare workers in nursing homes,
early child care educators, etc. Each of these occupations is critical in
allowing the rest of society to stay at home and “flatten the curve.” Yet, it is
nearly impossible to engage in physical distancing in these occupations, which
contributes to the spread of the virus. Many of these workers take public
transportation, which again makes it impossible to engage in physical
distancing."
Black Americans dying of Covid-19 at three times the rate of white people 5/20/2020 Guardian: "Gathering
data on the racial gulf in deaths has itself been hampered by an absence of
federal action, compounded by slow and in some cases non-existent reporting by
many states. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) only
produced its first set of death statistics by race this week, despite mounting
calls for basic information. In the absence of government data, APM Research Lab
has stepped into the breach. It now gathers statistics from 40 states, covering
almost 90% of the total of 92,128 deaths in the US recorded by Johns Hopkins."
Racism declared a public health crisis in Ohio's most populated county 5/20/2020 ABC: "Officials
in Ohio have declared racism a public health crisis in the state's most
populated county. Commissioners in Franklin County passed a resolution Tuesday
that makes the declaration, as well as vows to support community efforts on
racism and ensure that board commissioners will work under "antiracism
principles." The resolution was in the works well before the novel coronavirus
crisis, according to officials."
Trump's HHS secretary accidentally tells the truth: Racism is driving pandemic
policy 5/19/2020 Salon: "The implications of Azar's comments are clear
enough, despite the superficial language of concern: Black and brown communities
and individuals are somehow responsible for dying at higher rates from the
coronavirus pandemic and the nation's "unfortunate" diversity is at least partly
to blame."
Why is coronavirus killing more Black people than White people in Bexar County? 5/19/2020 KSAT: "“Sometimes
people are living in more dense areas with multi-generational families,” Woo
said. She said that crowded living environments, like jails and prisons, can
make it harder to social distance and avoid the virus. “That’s (mass
incarceration) disproportionately impacting our Black and Brown communities. So
we know that we’ve had these outbreaks at the jail,” Woo said. Woo said many
working minorities are front line and essential workers, which creates greater
opportunities to be exposed to the coronavirus. On the other hand, she said
there are many others who don’t have access to health care."
Fight
breaks out at Michigan anti-lockdown protests 5/15/2020 CBS: "Protesters
demonstrated at Michigan's state capitol Thursday to voice their opposition to
statewide stay-at-home orders. Michigan's governor says she's concerned about
the racist undertones of those protests."
The Disproportionate Impact of Covid-19 on Black Health Care Workers in the U.S. 5/14/2020 Harvard
Business Review: "The data about who is most affected by the coronavirus is
still coming out, but the kind of patients Mindy went into nursing to treat are
likely those who are the hardest hit by Covid-19. This makes black health care
workers’ intentional decisions to go where they saw the most need fraught with
frightening implications."
Street Medics See Cuba As A Model For COVID-19 Response In Vulnerable
Communities 5/12/2020 Shadow Proof: "Henderson isn’t alone as a Black
doctor in the U.S. reaching out to considering Cuba for help. Historically, many
other Black doctors, such as Dr. Melissa Barber, have received free medical
training in Cuba and have used that training to help their communities respond
to the pandemic. “I’m in solidarity with Armen’s concerns that you have in
respect to the situation, but it is a difficult thing,” explained Dr. Marta
Galvez Cabrera, a specialist of over 35 years in comprehensive general medicine
in Havana, Cuba. “It’s difficult because first of all you have to create basic
premises that at this moment do not exist [in the U.S],” she said, adding,
“Before the problem is there you have to prevent it.”"
COVID-19 Took Black Lives First. It Didn’t Have To. 5/9/2020 ProPublica: "Dr.
Mira Iliescu-Levine, a pulmonary critical care doctor at The Loretto Hospital on
Chicago’s West Side, is concerned that African American and Latino patients are
waiting to come to the hospital after their symptoms become too severe. “You end
up with an overwhelming clinical picture, almost like a tornado, that’s very
hard to stop,” she said. She said she wants patients, especially her African
American patients with diabetes, obesity and other comorbidities, to seek care
when they have “innocent symptoms” like a cough, runny nose, itchy eyes or
low-grade fever."
Black People Are Being Arrested at Higher Rates for Social Distancing Violations 5/9/2020 Truth
Out: "With more than 70,000 Americans dead from the coronavirus, government
officials have not figured out how to balance the threat of COVID-19 with the
harms of over policing, Clarke said. “On the one hand, we want to beat back the
pandemic. That’s critical. That’s the end goal,” she told ProPublica. “On the
other hand, we’re seeing social distancing being used as a pretext to arrest the
very communities that have been hit hardest by the virus.”"
NY’s COVID-19 stats show African-Americans, Hispanics, nursing homes at higher
risk as reopening looms 5/8/2020 Record Online: "The leading underlying
illness was hypertension, which showed up in 55% of the deaths. Next was
diabetes, which was diagnosed in 7,414 deaths, or about 36% of the cases."
The coronavirus pandemic is hitting black and brown Americans especially hard on
all fronts 5/8/2020 CNN: "To put those numbers into context, African
Americans make up about 13% of the population in those places but 27% of
Covid-19 deaths for which race and ethnicity is known, APM research shows."
The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying 5/8/2020 Atlantic: "The
coronavirus epidemic has rendered the racial contract visible in multiple ways.
Once the disproportionate impact of the epidemic was revealed to the American
political and financial elite, many began to regard the rising death toll less
as a national emergency than as an inconvenience. Temporary measures meant to
prevent the spread of the disease by restricting movement, mandating the wearing
of masks, or barring large social gatherings have become the foulest tyranny.
The lives of workers at the front lines of the pandemic—such as meatpackers,
transportation workers, and grocery clerks—have been deemed so worthless that
legislators want to immunize their employers from liability even as they force
them to work under unsafe conditions. In East New York, police assault black
residents for violating social-distancing rules; in Lower Manhattan, they dole
out masks and smiles to white pedestrians."
One Mardi Gras Story Lays Bare How COVID-19 Is Devastating Black People 5/8/2020 Democracy
Now: "What we’re starting to see as we learn that Black people are
disproportionately dying from this is this blaming of Black communities and
saying that, “Well, that’s just because Black people don’t take care of
themselves. Black people don’t take care of their health.” The truth is that
Black people are living in a constructed environment that is designed to
actually produce exactly the disparities that we see. It is not accidental that
Black people are the most likely to live near toxic sites, the most likely to
live in polluted neighborhoods, the most likely to live in areas where there is
a lot of highway and freeway traffic. And so, what that means is Black people
have been intentionally placed in the most vulnerable positions."
Nueva York deja morir a los hispanos y personas de color, denuncia enfermera en
desgarrador video 5/7/2020 Tu Nota: "Acá no importan las vidas de los
negros y de los hispanoamericanos", dice entre lágrimas en la grabación
difundida a través de Internet y publicado en el NewYorkPost. “La negligencia
grave y la mala gestión médica completa”, aseguró la profesional en el video, y
se lamentó: “No les importa lo que le está pasando a estas personas. Y sólo
tengo que seguir viéndolos morir… Oh, Dios”. "
Many States Are Reporting Race Data For Only Some COVID-19 Cases And Deaths 5/7/2020 FiveThirtyEight: "Last
week, we published an analysis finding that several states have yet to break
down their COVID-19 data by race and ethnicity. At least three states — Nevada,
North Dakota and Nebraska — and five U.S. territories have yet to release any
demographic information about the cases and deaths they’ve reported so far. But
even the places reporting some demographic data aren’t necessarily giving the
full picture. For both cases and deaths, almost every state is missing varying
amounts of race and ethnicity data — data that’s critical to understanding how
communities are being affected by the novel coronavirus. According to our review
of data available, 18 states and U.S. territories are not reporting information
on the race and ethnicity of people who have died of COVID-19.1"
Minorities, more likely to have jobs that make them 'essential workers,'
disproportionately affected by COVID-19 5/7/2020 ABC: ""The excess
morbidity and mortality that we're seeing in COVID-19 is really a reflection of
centuries really of systems that have created this sort of perfect storm, where
people have less opportunities to work in places where they're able to shelter
in place so minorities are more likely to be those 'essential workers.'" Payne
owns a taxi and limo service. He thinks he got the coronavirus after driving a
client. "I definitely had to work because that's my only way of making a
living," Payne said. "There's nothing else for me really to depend on. If I
don't transport clients, we don't eat.""
'We have to test more people': Wisconsin expands coronavirus testing for African
American, Latino and tribal communities 5/7/2020 Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel: "Individuals in high risk racial and ethnic groups, including African
Americans, Latinos and tribal community members, will now be able to get a free
test at those sites, regardless of whether they are having symptoms. "We can
bend the curve on this if we test more," Evers said. "Is that going to solve
economic disparities? No. But hopefully, it's going to save some lives. That's
the critical thing right now.""
Why Trump and Anti-Lockdown Protesters’ Calls to Return to Normal Are Acts of
White Supremacy 5/7/2020 IMI: "Ending lockdowns too early will kill more
Americans—it’s that simple, and even the government’s own agencies project such
a scenario. President Donald Trump has admitted it, saying, “Will some people be
affected badly? Yes. But we have to get our country open and we have to get it
open soon.” Except that ending the lockdowns now will specifically kill far more
African Americans than any other demographic. The health news website MedPage
referred to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on blacks as a, “Wildly
disproportionate mortality.” Researchshows that African Americans are dying from
COVID-19 at a rate that is, “2.3 times higher than the rate for Asians and
Latinos, and 2.6 times higher than the rate for Whites.” In fact, whites are the
least impacteddemographic in the nation. In New York City, the national
epicenter of the disease, the same racialized outcomes are observed, with more
African Americans being hospitalized and dying from the disease than any other
racial group, followed by Latinos. Black and brown Americans are also more
impacted financially by the virus-related lockdown. A Pew Research survey found
that African Americans and Latinos were far more likely to lose their jobs and
lack the savings to cover their expenses than whites."
She Said Anthony Fauci Sexually Assaulted Her. Now She Says Jacob Wohl and Jack
Burkman Paid Her to Lie. 5/7/2020 Reason: ""Mother Nature has to clean the
barn every so often," Burkman counters. "How real is it? Who knows? So what if 1
percent of the population goes? So what if you lose 400,000 people? Two hundred
thousand were elderly, the other 200,000 are the bottom of society. You got to
clean out the barn. If it's real, it's a positive thing, for God's sake.""
Disproportionately black counties account for over half of coronavirus cases in
the U.S. and nearly 60% of deaths, study finds 5/6/2020 WaPo: "Although
public health experts and political leaders have attributed the high rate of
serious illness and deaths from covid-19 among black Americans to underlying
health conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes, the Amfar study found
that those factors were not the primary cause of the disparities. Rather, other
social determinants, including employment, access to health insurance and
medical care and poor air and water quality, were more predictive of infection
and death from covid-19."
Black Americans are bearing the brunt of coronavirus recession – this should
come as no surprise 5/6/2020 The Conversation: "As the COVID-19 pandemic
worsened in April, many Americans were shocked by the extent that black
Americans were being disproportionately impacted: higher infection rates, more
deaths and greater job loss. But many black Americans were not surprised. This
is not new. The same dynamic has been going on at times of crisis for decades
and generations. As a labor economist and former chief economist at the U.S.
Department of Labor under the Clinton administration, I know that history has
shown that black Americans consistently bear the brunt of recessions and natural
disasters."
'It's gone haywire': When COVID-19 arrived in rural America 5/6/2020 AP: "As
the world’s attention was fixated on the horrors in Italy and New York City, the
per capita death rates in counties in the impoverished southwest corner of
Georgia climbed to among the worst in the country. The devastation here is a
cautionary tale of what happens when the virus seeps into communities that have
for generations remained on the losing end of the nation’s most intractable
inequalities: these counties are rural, mostly African American and poor. "
African Americans are disproportionately dying from COVID-19. Here are states
with the worst disparities 5/6/2020 WUSA: "Since then, more states have
released data showing COVID-19 cases and deaths by race. According to the Racial
Data Transparency map by Johns Hopkins University, as of early May, 41 states
have released race-specific data on confirmed cases, and 38 states have started
reporting COVID-19 deaths by race. The new data shed light on the extent of
racial disparities in the pandemic. In Wisconsin, African Americans make up 32%
of coronavirus deaths as of May 1, but the group makes up just 6.7% of the
population. Similarly, in Michigan and Missouri, African Americans account for
roughly 40% of coronavirus deaths despite comprising only 14% and 12% of the
population respectively."
More than 80 percent of COVID-19 patients in Georgia are black, CDC study finds 5/4/2020 11
Alive: "Shocking new numbers from the CDC show the toll the coronavirus is
taking on Georgia, particularly African Americans. Researchers looked at
COVID-19 patients at eight Georgia hospitals - seven in metro Atlanta and one in
south Georgia. More than 80 percent of the patients were black, according to the
study published Wednesday."
More than 80% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Georgia last month were
black, CDC study finds 4/30/2020 CBS: "A CDC study released Wednesday found
that over 80% of the COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Georgia last month were
black. It's the latest analysis showing that communities of color are being hit
disproportionately hard by the coronavirus. The study comes just days after
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp started reopening some of the state's businesses — a
move condemned as premature and dangerous by local black leaders as well as
public health officials and even President Trump."
Ibram X. Kendi: Why the coronavirus is hitting black people so hard 4/30/2020 Salon: "Then
we ask, "OK, why is it that we're dying?" It's not because there's something
wrong with black people. It's because we live in neighborhoods where there's
environmental hazards, where there's pollution, so that causes young black kids
to have asthma. We live in food deserts where it's hard to get access to high
quality, cheaper food. That causes people to be more likely to suffer from heart
disease and you suffer from respiratory disease, which then is going to make you
more likely to die. We're just showing through this book, over time, there's
never been anything wrong with black people as a group and always been wrong
with the way in which we've been forced to live in this country."
Minority groups at risk as states withhold, provide partial COVID-19 racial data 4/30/2020 ABC: "As
the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. tops one million, a review
of nationwide data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
shows racial and ethnic information is still missing in over 50% of the total
cases reported to the federal government."
HOW MILWAUKEE REPRESENTS THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS 4/29/2020 The
Undefeated: "Researchers at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public
Health also recently found that long-term exposure to air pollution can possibly
lead to higher rates of deaths from COVID-19. A 2019 study in the Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America found that, on
average, African Americans are exposed to 56% more air pollution than they
themselves cause, air pollution that is disproportionately caused by white
Americans. White people, on the other hand, are exposed to 17% less of the air
pollution they’re responsible for."
‘A Terrible Price’: The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America 4/29/2020 NY
Times Magazine: "He says this precious memory has been marred by the racial
health disparities he has spent much of his career studying, the disparities
that have come to define the American outbreak of Covid-19 — and the harm this
lethal combination has inflicted on the Zulu club. “These men were doing
something as seemingly harmless as socializing, as networking, and just because
of that moment of fellowship to celebrate their heritage, they’re now dead?” he
says. “That just made me pause. It makes you understand the pain, the hurt of
this gap in health care outcomes as a function of race that have been with us
for decades. Covid-19 has basically taken off the Band-Aid that was covering the
wound, pointed out how deep it is and left us no other choice but to finally
say: We get it, we see it.”"
Georgia's Covid-19 reopening pits white governor against black mayors 4/22/2020 Guardian: "In
a state where African Americans make up more than 32% of the population but
account for an estimated 54% of known coronavirus deaths, the decision pitted a
white Republican governor against mostly black Democratic mayors and critics.
“By trying to push a false opening of the economy, we risk putting more lives in
danger,” Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who lost to Kemp in a controversial
election in 2018, told MSNBC. Citing the close contact needed for grooming
services, Abrams said: “There is nothing about [the measure] that makes sense.”"
Watch: Georgia doctor reacts with horror to Gov. Kemp’s decision to ‘reopen’
state despite pandemic risks 4/22/2020 Alternet: "Dr. Bernice King,
daughter of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., was just as vehement if not
more so than Dr. Lorraine. King is actually a member of Kemp’s “Coronavirus Task
Force,” but, inexplicably, even she was not informed of his decision
beforehand."
Black Leaders Condemn Republican Governors’ Plans to Reopen State Economies:
‘More People Can Die’ 4/21/2020 Atlanta Black Star: "“I’m extremely
concerned about the governor’s plans and what his decisions will mean for the
safety, health and lives of Georgia residents,” King said in a Periscope video.
She is a member of Kemp’s coronavirus task force and revealed the governor did
not inform them of his intentions. In the video, King also highlighted the
elevated risk for Black people. “I am particularly concerned about populations
most affected by the virus,” she said. “It is well-known and conveyed by
scientists, medical professionals and data that the coronavirus is proven to be
especially dangerous for members of my community, the Black community.”"
Southern governors create a Covid-19 coalition and experts fear a 'perfect
storm' 4/21/2020 Politico: "The newly formed coalition includes Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, a part of the
country that has underfunded health systems, as well as high rates of obesity,
diabetes and other illnesses that amplify the deadliness of the coronavirus. And
unlike their peers in New York, New Jersey and other Northeastern states that
have been working cooperatively since last week to restart their economies, the
six in the South have lagged on testing and social distancing measures."
Racial toll of virus grows even starker as more data emerges 4/19/2020 ABC: "As
a clearer picture emerges of COVID-19’s decidedly deadly toll on black
Americans, leaders are demanding a reckoning of the systemic policies they say
have made many African Americans far more vulnerable to the virus, including
inequity in access to health care and economic opportunity. A growing chorus of
medical professionals, activists and political figures is pressuring the federal
government to not just release comprehensive racial demographic data of the
country’s coronavirus victims, but also to outline clear strategies to blunt the
devastation on African Americans and other communities of color."
The GOP has become a death cult 4/17/2020 Alternet: "“Long live death!”
That was the defiant cry of José Millán-Astray y Terreros, a general in
Francisco Franco’s fascist army during the Spanish civil war. It could just as
well suit Trump’s foot soldiers."
Meet the right-wing groups protesting against social distancing and stay-at-home
orders: report 4/17/2020 Alternet: “While protesters in Michigan, Ohio,
Kentucky and other states claim to speak for ordinary citizens, many are also
supported by street-fighting right-wing groups like the Proud Boys, conservative
armed militia groups, religious fundamentalists, anti-vaccination groups and
other elements of the radical right,” Wilson explains.
The Black Plague 4/16/2020 New Yorker: "In Philadelphia, a scientist at
Drexel University found that, in Zip Codes with a “lower proportion of
minorities and higher incomes,” a higher number of tests were administered. In
Zip Codes with a higher number of unemployed and uninsured residents, there were
fewer tests. Taken together, testing in higher-income neighborhoods is six times
greater than it is in poorer neighborhoods."
Humanity’s Catastrophe: Following Sylvia Wynter in the Age of Coronavirus 4/10/2020 Critical
Legal Thinking: "For the oppressed, the future will have been now and if local
responses to the global crisis are anything to go by, now is perhaps the time to
give the Human a long-overdue makeover, or as Sylvia Wynter states, “…the
struggle of our new millennium will be one between the ongoing imperative of
securing the well-being of our present ethnoclass (i.e. Western Bourgeois)
conception of the human, Man, which over represents itself as if it were the
human itself, and that of securing the well-being, and therefore the full
cognitive and behavioural autonomy of the human species itself/ourselves.”"
AMERICA SET UP BLACK COMMUNITIES TO BE HARDER HIT BY COVID-19 4/8/2020 The
Verge: "“When you look at [COVID-19] that particularly is virulent for persons
who have higher rates of disease, that’s exactly the picture of African
Americans. But it’s not their genes. It’s the social conditions that we have
created,” says, David Williams, a professor of public health at Harvard whose
research has examined how race and class affect health. “I hope this is a wake
up call for America.”"
'It's a racial justice issue': Black Americans are dying in greater numbers from
Covid-19 4/8/2020 Guardian: "According to CDC guidelines, every state is
legally required to track data on testing and treatment by race, as it has done
during other outbreaks. Fewer than a dozen have released that data so far. Last
week congressional Democrats, including Senator Elizabeth Warren and
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, both of Massachusetts, sent a letter demanding
the CDC provide racial data. Without demographic data, health officials and
lawmakers would not be able to address inequities in health outcomes and testing
that might emerge, the letter said. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights also
called out the CDC for not including those racial breakdowns. “This is a crisis
like none other and officials in our state and federal governments play a large
role here in bringing transparency,” said Kristen Clarke, committee president
and executive director. The committee sent letters urging state health
departments, as well as Washington DC, to release their numbers. On Monday,
Washington’s Mayor Muriel Bowser published coronavirus numbers by race for the
first time: of the District’s 24 deaths, 14 were of black patients. After losing
its majority-black status in 2011, Washington DC is now 45.5% African American.
Bowser dismissed questions on racial disparities, claiming “all deaths are a
concern”. But for many black communities the threat of being infected by
Covid-19 is proportional to their fear. According to Pew, 46% of black Americans
viewed the coronavirus as a threat to their health, more than double their white
counterparts."
What the COVID-19 Pandemic Means for Black Americans 4/7/2020 Scientific
American: "One of the main solutions to combating COVID-19 is widespread testing
that would allow us to cohort and quarantine groups of patients who test
positive so as to restrict the spread of disease. However, COVID1-9 testing has
had limited availability for a variety of reasons, including ineffective federal
leadership, the bureaucracy of federal agencies and an uncoordinated health care
system. As a physician, I’ve found it upsetting that celebrities and government
officials without symptoms have been able to access testing quickly with
same-day results, while I’ve had to ration out testing to my patients with
turnaround times of five, seven and sometimes 10 days as a result of backlogs."
Louisiana’s COVID-19 deaths were 70 percent Black residents 4/7/2020 Griot: "More
than 70 percent of Louisianans who have died from COVID-19 are African-American,
and the leading underlying issue is hypertension. The news comes a day after The
Grio reported that 70 percent of all COVID-19 deaths in Chicago are Black
people."
Black America must wake up to this viral threat 4/6/2020 CNN: "In addition,
younger African Americans are already dying at higher rates from diabetes, HIV
and cancer than white populations of the same age, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. And people who contract Covid-19 and are already
immunocompromised appear at greater risk of complications from the virus, should
they contract it. Furthermore, obesity rates are significantly higher among both
African American children (17 and under) and adults (18 and older), according to
the Department of Health and Human Services. And obesity puts them at greater
risk of those underlying immunocompromising illnesses such as diabetes and
high-blood pressure."
Rate of deaths, illness among black residents alarms cities 4/6/2020 Miami
Herald: "Public health experts in Chicago said the trend was unsurprising to
anyone familiar with decades-old barriers to health care in the geographically
divided city; residents of the city’s South and West sides historically have
poorer access to health care, higher poverty rates and jobs that require them to
keep showing up while others are able to work from home. Similar conditions mark
other large cities with large black populations that are considered hot spots
for the coronavirus, including New York, Detroit, Milwaukee and New Orleans.
Figures released Monday by Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services
showed African Americans, who make up 14% of the state population, make up about
33% of cases statewide and 41% of deaths."
Leaked Memo Reveals Amazon Execs Plotted to Paint Fired 'Not Smart' Worker as
'Face of Entire Union/Organizing Movement' 4/3/2020 Common Dreams: "The
richest man on earth, @JeffBezos, had a meeting to develop a PR strategy to
smear Christian Smalls, a young, African American Amazon warehouse worker,
father of 3, who organized a walkout because of unsafe conditions during the
COVID-19 pandemic. Look how they talk about him"
The South Doesn’t Want to Self-Isolate 4/2/2020 Washington
Monthly: "Whether religiosity explains it, or a probably related skepticism
toward scientific expert advice, or maybe something to do with their car
culture, I don’t know. But their slowness to respond to this outbreak has
undermined the effectiveness of the efforts of the areas that did respond. And,
because of the nature of this disease, we’re all going to be paying for that for
the foreseeable future."
In 1918 and 2020, race colors America’s response to epidemics 4/1/2020 The
Undefeated: "When the flu epidemic of 1918 came to Chicago, black people were
blamed, and that blame came directly from John Dill Robertson, the city’s
commissioner of public health."
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