Coronavirus suffering won’t be colorblind.
The federal government has failed its populace in many ways since the COVID-19 pandemic reached American soil. It began early on with an inadequate supply of test kits being provided to clinicians, compounded when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention enacted strict criteria for which patients could even receive one.
Blackstock is an emergency medicine physician by training. She was in academic medicine for 10 years until she left in December to focus on her company, Advancing Health Equity, which partners with health care organizations to make sure that they have the tools needed to provide equitable care. And these people have jobs. One thing I have noticed is that a lot of my Black patients work for the city. They are essential employees. They’re bus drivers. They work for transit. They can’t really afford to be out of work anyway, and they still have to work. They don’t have the luxury of working remotely.
One thing that scares me about this whole thing—especially with limited testing and just people getting really, really sick—is that doctors don’t always take Black patients seriously and they don’t always listen to us. What do you think is about to happen in hospitals if doctors have to start triaging resources?
When I heard about doctors in Italy having to ration ventilators and then the incredibly likely possibility that that is going to happen here, my first thought was so many Black people are going to die. The reason why we have such high levels of diabetes, hypertension, and asthma is directly linked to structural racism. The weathering effect, which is when everyday racism causes a stress response that ages our bodies, and epigenetics, which is how structural racism and that chronic stress affects gene expression. We’re already very vulnerable. When you add this pandemic on top of us, we’re more likely to be sicker when we present.
Right. Are you afraid that some Black people won’t seek health care just because of our community’s strained relation with the medical system?
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