'Torn up': African American family mourns four loved ones as COVID-19 racial disparities exposed.
disparity. We’ve known, literally forever, that diseases like diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and asthma are disproportionately afflicting the minority populations, particularly the African Americans," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of President Donald Trump's Coronavirus Task Force, said at White House briefing this week.
-- In Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, 45% of the more than 1,500 people who had tested positive for the virus as of Thursday were black. Of the 68 people in the county to die from the disease, 45, or 66%, were black,provided by officials there. Some 27% of the population is black in the county, the Census said.
People wait in line to for coronavirus testing outside Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago, April 7, 2020.-- While blacks comprise 22% of the population of North Carolina, they accounted for 39% of the more than 3,600 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 38% of the more than 60 deaths.
While the CDC report was based on a scant sampling in March of 1,482 patients in 14 states and included race and ethnicity information on about 580 hospitalized cases, it showed that blacks, who represent 13% of the U.S. population, made up 33% of hospitalized coronavirus cases"suggesting that black populations might be disproportionately affected by COVID-19.
The Poor People's Campaign, a nonprofit grassroots organization that is a revival of the one started by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and led to the 1968 Poor People's March on Washington, issued a statement Wednesday calling on hospitals and health departments across the country to begin reporting coronavirus cases by race and ethnicity, poverty and income.
''It’s just abundantly clear that it’s sick, it’s troubling, it's wrong," de Blasio said."Our nation has still not come to grips with the fact that health care is provided so unevenly and all based on how much money you have."
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