The pandemic has highlighted disparities in health and healthcare in the U.S. “Black communities were essentially already sick before coronavirus,” said Uché Blackstock, an urgent-care physician.
When Uché Blackstock, an urgent-care physician and founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, saw initial reports from China regarding characteristics of people who are at higher risk for contracting coronavirus she knew it would spell trouble for fellow members of the Black community.
Before founding Advancing Health Equity, an organization that partners with health-care providers and institutions to help address factors that may contribute to health inequality, Blackstock was an emergency-room doctor for more than ten years. For example, redlining influenced decades of investment in neighborhoods, and because neighborhoods that were predominantly Black or other ethnic minorities got low ratings, home ownership was particularly low. So if there’s a neighborhood where there’s a low home ownership rate, that actually influences the quality of education because property taxes in this country are tied to how much money is given to the educational system in a given neighborhood.
MW: In your testimony, you also shared a story where you saw an elderly Black man who was experiencing shortness of breath, fever and low oxygen levels. You urged him to visit the nearest emergency room, but he told you he didn’t want to go because he thought he wouldn’t receive good care.
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