Coronavirus is disproportionality affecting black Americans and eliciting calls for more data
During a press briefing this week at the White House, Anthony Fauci — director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease — spoke out about growing concerns surrounding racial disparities in deaths from COVID-19. “We will get over coronavirus, but there will still be health disparities which we really do need to address in the African-American community,” he said.
As individuals continue to advocate for more transparency, here are some key takeaways about how race is impacting the outcomes of this pandemic. The federal government has since acknowledged the disparities.President Trump raised the topic of racial disparities in the coronavirus death toll this week, calling it a “real problem.” He passed the conversation along to Fauci, who compared the coronavirus outbreak’s disproportionate death toll among black Americans to the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. “I see a similarity here because health disparities have always existed for the African-American community,” he said.
The committee expanded on the concept in its letter to the HHS and CDC. “Systemic racism and bias in the healthcare system have resulted in chronically poor health outcomes for Black Americans, including higher rates of asthma, high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes,” the letter reads. “These co-morbidities render Black Americans more susceptible to severe respiratory complications and death resulting from COVID-19.
Clarke agrees, saying, “Only 20 percent of black workers in the country are able to work from home, compared to roughly one-third of their white counterparts. African-American communities face a higher degree of risk exposure. Private COVID-19 testing is cost-prohibitive, making it very difficult for low-income communities and particularly people of color to get tested.”
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