According to a report released by the CDC looking at hospital data in 14 states for March, African Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population -- but accounted for 33% of patients sick enough with COVID-19 to be hospitalized.
and high blood pressure. “These underlying conditions are part of what are driving the racial inequities,” she says. “These are the very chronic conditions that put people at risk of severe illness and death.”People of color are more likely to live in large urban areas and many live in crowded, multi-family dwellings, which raises their risk of exposure to COVID-19, according to the Kaiser report.
In addition, only 20% of African American people are able to work from home, compared to roughly one-third of white people, according to Clarke. Uche Blackstock, MD, an emergency doctor in Brooklyn, New York, has witnessed the effects. “I have seen in my exam rooms mostly black and brown patients who are essential workers and service workers who cannot afford to stay home. These are the ones I see presenting to the clinic with COVID-19 symptoms.”, and high blood pressure, she says. “We already know that our health care system is embedded with bias.
“Fundamentally,” Arwady says, “the institutional and systemic racism that have driven these inequities over the years, we are now seeing play out in our COVID data.”
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