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African Americans account for 80 percent of Georgia coronavirus hospitalizations: study
BY JESSIE HELLMANN at the Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/495339-african-americans-account-for-80-percent-of-georgia-coronavirus
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African Americans in Georgia are hospitalized for COVID-19 at far higher rates than their white counterparts, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), presenting another stark reminder of the disproportionate impact the pandemic has had on people of color.
In a sample of 305 patients admitted in March to eight Georgia hospitals seven which were in Atlanta 83.2 percent were black, while 10.8 percent were white, and 3.4 percent were Hispanic.
Researchers said the proportion of hospitalized COVID-19 patients who were black was higher than expected compared with overall hospitalizations. For example, at four of the hospitals, 80 percent of COVID-19 patients were black, compared with 47 percent of patients overall during the month of March.
It is critical that public health officials ensure that prevention activities prioritize communities and racial groups most affected by COVID-19, the researchers wrote.
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Buckeye_Democrat
(14,848 posts)Also, a recent review of data in New York indicated that hypertension, obesity and diabetes (in that order) were the biggest risk factors for Covid-19.
African Americans have the highest rate of hypertension.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221133551930035X
And the highest rate of obesity.
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
And a higher rate of diabetes (with Native Americans at the highest).
https://www.diabetes.org/resources/statistics/statistics-about-diabetes
Not to mention worse healthcare, in general.
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(118,023 posts)Takket
(21,425 posts)we were shut down here for about 4 weeks and no one complained at all, until it starting coming out how disproportionately this was effecting blacks, especially in Detroit, and then all of a sudden the MAGAt crowd starting protesting and throwing fits over the shutdown.......... they think the virus will just wipe out the blacks and that's why they want it to spread.