"WW C"- COVID-19, GLOBAL CASES SURPASS 676 MILLION...CASES 676,609,955 DEATHS 6,881,955 US CASES 103,804,263 US DEATHS 1,123,836 8:30pm 1/28/24
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Shit, with our media and politics the last 2 years, I hope the west is forthcoming about the variant. We ain't on the 'crush the virus' shit no more.
And this is why the worker shortage is going to get worse for some corporations.
One City’s Potential Return To Indoor Mask Mandate
Concerns of a new rise in Covid cases are raising alarm bells in the U.S.
Numbers are rising in Philadelphia, causing health officials to consider reinstating a full indoor mask mandate in public spaces.
Though cases are growing in the U.S., hospitalizations and deaths continue falling from their peak, suggesting covid can be effectively managed with vaccines and treatments.
Concerns of a new rise in Covid cases are raising alarm bells in the U.S.
Numbers are rising in Philadelphia, causing health officials to consider reinstating a full indoor mask mandate in public spaces.
Though cases are growing in the U.S., hospitalizations and deaths continue falling from their peak, suggesting covid can be effectively managed with vaccines and treatments.
Potential????? They need to go ahead and do it
Shit, with our media and politics the last 2 years, I hope the west is forthcoming about the variant. We ain't on the 'crush the virus' shit no more.
Exactly.
String of COVID cases hits DC as nationwide rise looms
A burst of high-profile COVID-19 cases in Washington, D.C., is highlighting the lingering threat of the virus.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Cabinet members including Attorney General Merrick Garland, and a string of lawmakers, have all tested positive in recent days.
The cases are reminders that the virus is still circulating even as much of America moves forward from the pandemic.
In fact, experts are bracing for cases to increase in the coming weeks, given an even more highly transmissible subvariant of omicron, known as BA.2, that is circulating widely.
“I do think we’re going to see an uptick nationally,” said Crystal Watson, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “The question is really how high it will get.”
Washington, as well as New York and other parts of the northeast, are already seeing upticks in cases.
The high-profile DC cases, “may be a reflection” of a new spike, Watson said, though she noted it is “hard to tell” exactly how wide a conclusion to draw from them.
“I do think we’re generally seeing an uptick in cases in D.C.,” she said.
Still, there are important ways in which any coming increase in cases will likely not be as bad as previous surges.
People who are vaccinated, especially those who are boosted, have strong protection against severe disease, meaning that while they may still get infected, the symptoms are likely to be mild.
In addition to the protection offered by vaccination, many people across the country were infected during the first omicron wave over the winter, which means much of the population still has additional immunity.
“We now have a lot of immunity both from vaccines and from infection,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Brown University. “It’s hard to imagine we will see quite the levels of severe illness that we saw in earlier phases.”
Some experts now say that hospitalizations are a more important metric than sheer case numbers. With a highly transmissible virus and vaccines that protect against severe disease, the goal has shifted more towards preventing hospitals from being overwhelmed, rather than trying to prevent mild cases from occurring.
Notably, even as cases have gone up in Washington, D.C., and New York City, hospitalizations continued to decrease, though they tend to lag behind cases.
Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, said on Bloomberg TV this week that he hopes the higher levels of immunity in the population help blunt the worst effects of any coming increase in cases.
“I would not be surprised if we see an uptick in cases, whether that uptick becomes a surge where there are a lot more cases is difficult to predict,” Fauci said. “But the one thing that I hope, and I believe there’s reason that this will not happen, is that we won’t get a very large increase proportionately in hospitalizations because of the background immunity.”
Many of the high-profile D.C. cases have appeared to stem from the Gridiron Dinner, a gathering of many top officials. Gridiron organizers said Friday that 53 attendees had been infected.
Leana Wen, a public health professor at George Washington University, argued in a Washington Post op-ed this week that events like the dinner can still go on in this new phase of “living with COVID-19,” especially if they use safeguards like proof of vaccination and rapid testing beforehand.
“There are those who would argue it’s irresponsible to hold parties that could turn into super-spreader events,” Wen wrote. “That was true before vaccines were widely available, but it’s no longer realistic. We need to use a different paradigm — one that’s based on individuals being thoughtful about their own risks and the risks they pose to others.”
Even for President Biden, the White House acknowledged on Friday that he might get the virus, but stressed the protection from he has vaccines and boosters, saying the country is “in a very different place.”
“It is possible he will test positive for COVID at some point and we’re in a very different place than we were…which is to say we have vaccines, we have treatments,” White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said on CNN. “The president is vaccinated and double boosted so, you know, protected from severe COVID.”
While there is a risk of a new uptick, the current situation is also greatly improved. Cases, at about 29,000 per day, according to a New York Times tracker, are at their lowest point since last summer.
Hospitalizations have plummeted to about 15,000, and are at their lowest point since the early days of the pandemic in 2020.
There are still about 500 people dying every day from the virus, concentrated among the unvaccinated.
While treatments and vaccines have put the country in a far better place, experts warn that Congress’s failure to provide more funding to fight the virus risks the progress.
The White House says testing capacity will decline in the coming months, and treatments will run out, if more funding is not provided. And if fourth vaccine doses are needed for all Americans, there is not currently enough money to purchase them.
The United States is also lagging other developed countries in its rates of booster doses.
“We have not done a good enough job on that front,” Nuzzo said, noting there should be a particular focus on reaching the remaining elderly who are not boosted.
About half of eligible adults and a third of eligible seniors are not boosted, according to CDC data.
Making sure people are boosted and protected is key, Nuzzo said, because “this virus isn’t going away.”
A burst of high-profile COVID-19 cases in Washington, D.C., is highlighting the lingering threat of the virus.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Cabinet members including Attorney General Merrick Garland, and a string of lawmakers, have all tested positive in recent days.
The cases are reminders that the virus is still circulating even as much of America moves forward from the pandemic.
In fact, experts are bracing for cases to increase in the coming weeks, given an even more highly transmissible subvariant of omicron, known as BA.2, that is circulating widely.
“I do think we’re going to see an uptick nationally,” said Crystal Watson, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “The question is really how high it will get.”
Washington, as well as New York and other parts of the northeast, are already seeing upticks in cases.
The high-profile DC cases, “may be a reflection” of a new spike, Watson said, though she noted it is “hard to tell” exactly how wide a conclusion to draw from them.
“I do think we’re generally seeing an uptick in cases in D.C.,” she said.
Still, there are important ways in which any coming increase in cases will likely not be as bad as previous surges.
People who are vaccinated, especially those who are boosted, have strong protection against severe disease, meaning that while they may still get infected, the symptoms are likely to be mild.
In addition to the protection offered by vaccination, many people across the country were infected during the first omicron wave over the winter, which means much of the population still has additional immunity.
“We now have a lot of immunity both from vaccines and from infection,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Brown University. “It’s hard to imagine we will see quite the levels of severe illness that we saw in earlier phases.”
Some experts now say that hospitalizations are a more important metric than sheer case numbers. With a highly transmissible virus and vaccines that protect against severe disease, the goal has shifted more towards preventing hospitals from being overwhelmed, rather than trying to prevent mild cases from occurring.
Notably, even as cases have gone up in Washington, D.C., and New York City, hospitalizations continued to decrease, though they tend to lag behind cases.
Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, said on Bloomberg TV this week that he hopes the higher levels of immunity in the population help blunt the worst effects of any coming increase in cases.
“I would not be surprised if we see an uptick in cases, whether that uptick becomes a surge where there are a lot more cases is difficult to predict,” Fauci said. “But the one thing that I hope, and I believe there’s reason that this will not happen, is that we won’t get a very large increase proportionately in hospitalizations because of the background immunity.”
Many of the high-profile D.C. cases have appeared to stem from the Gridiron Dinner, a gathering of many top officials. Gridiron organizers said Friday that 53 attendees had been infected.
Leana Wen, a public health professor at George Washington University, argued in a Washington Post op-ed this week that events like the dinner can still go on in this new phase of “living with COVID-19,” especially if they use safeguards like proof of vaccination and rapid testing beforehand.
“There are those who would argue it’s irresponsible to hold parties that could turn into super-spreader events,” Wen wrote. “That was true before vaccines were widely available, but it’s no longer realistic. We need to use a different paradigm — one that’s based on individuals being thoughtful about their own risks and the risks they pose to others.”
Even for President Biden, the White House acknowledged on Friday that he might get the virus, but stressed the protection from he has vaccines and boosters, saying the country is “in a very different place.”
“It is possible he will test positive for COVID at some point and we’re in a very different place than we were…which is to say we have vaccines, we have treatments,” White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said on CNN. “The president is vaccinated and double boosted so, you know, protected from severe COVID.”
While there is a risk of a new uptick, the current situation is also greatly improved. Cases, at about 29,000 per day, according to a New York Times tracker, are at their lowest point since last summer.
Hospitalizations have plummeted to about 15,000, and are at their lowest point since the early days of the pandemic in 2020.
There are still about 500 people dying every day from the virus, concentrated among the unvaccinated.
While treatments and vaccines have put the country in a far better place, experts warn that Congress’s failure to provide more funding to fight the virus risks the progress.
The White House says testing capacity will decline in the coming months, and treatments will run out, if more funding is not provided. And if fourth vaccine doses are needed for all Americans, there is not currently enough money to purchase them.
The United States is also lagging other developed countries in its rates of booster doses.
“We have not done a good enough job on that front,” Nuzzo said, noting there should be a particular focus on reaching the remaining elderly who are not boosted.
About half of eligible adults and a third of eligible seniors are not boosted, according to CDC data.
Making sure people are boosted and protected is key, Nuzzo said, because “this virus isn’t going away.”
They are going to have to go back to a moderate Covid protocol at least because everyone knew this was coming out to seeing what was going on in China. White people are going to catch hell again.
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Yeah but also a lot of fucking people died from this virus and retired early……like I said a few months ago the corporation is going to have to sweeten the pot with certain jobs.
This why our media ain't shit.
So wait. Now getting COVID does offer immunity too. Wasn't too long ago people who claimed that were put in the tin foil hat camp.
Also, could have fucking sworn that when this first happened in 2020 the goal was to stop hospitals from being overwhelmed. When was the fucking goal EVER to prevent mild cases?
In this thread we were talking asymptomatic infections/mild cases happening with a lot of people. The entire point of lockdowns in 2020 was to 'slow the spread' so that hospitals wouldn't be overwhelmed. They only moved that goal posts to shame people and play politics.We almost to the point where they(the cool kids, not folks who been saying it) just say seniors(who make up 80 percent of the deaths, obese people, and those who are in bad health- who tend to make up the rest of the deaths) only need to worry about this shit. Because they can't pass out boosters forever. Wait for it. Everything else has played out but that.
The rest of us who stay taking precautions are going to be looked at as freaks by mid-terms.
@easy_b going to still say "white people are going to catch hell again" which is completely going against the facts of how the virus is disproportionately affecting the black community. The media trying to show fat ass, MAGA cacs on their deathbeds really did a number on perception as they intended. 
It's been a year since CDC declared racism a public health threat. Now what?
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline across the United States, health leaders warn that the crisis is not over — especially in the Black community. A new report details the disproportionate impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on Black...
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
As Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline across the United States, health leaders warn that the crisis is not over — especially in the Black community.
A new report details the disproportionate impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on Black Americans and calls for “the most precise data” on race and ethnicity to address this health inequity.
The two-year report was released by the Black Coalition Against Covid-19 last week, ahead of Friday’s first anniversary of the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declaring racism “a serious public health threat.”
That declaration gave “legitimacy” to conversations that have been taking place across all sectors of health care for some time, said Dr. Reed Tuckson, co-founder of the coalition.
The statement also shows that the CDC understands structural racism to be a “fundamental root cause of so much of the health disparities in America,” Tuckson said. “This is not a political issue. It is a human health and survival issue.”
The new report not only serves as a reminder that the Covid-19 pandemic is not over — particularly for the Black community — it is a “call to action” to address problems that existed long before the pandemic, Tuckson added.
“Now that we go back and look at all that has happened to us and all that we’ve learned, it is now time to focus everybody’s attention on going back and fighting the old fight,” he said.
The striking racial disparities in Covid-19 outcomes seen over the past two years were not a result of the disease itself, but rather the pandemic “illuminated inequities that have existed for generations and revealed for all of America a known, but often unaddressed, epidemic impacting public health: racism,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a statement on April 8, 2021.
“Racism is not just the discrimination against one group based on the color of their skin or their race or ethnicity, but the structural barriers that impact racial and ethnic groups differently to influence where a person lives, where they work, where their children play, and where they worship and gather in community,” Walensky said. “These social determinants of health have life-long negative effects on the mental and physical health of individuals in communities of color.”
Since the start of the pandemic, the risk of dying from Covid-19 has been nearly twice as high for Black and Hispanic people in the United States than for White people, data from the CDC shows. Black and Hispanic people also faced a higher risk of coronavirus infection and were more than twice as likely to be hospitalized.
Even as Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths trend down in the United States, Black Americans recently experienced the “highest rate of hospitalization” for any racial and ethnic group since the inception of the pandemic, according to the new report.
During the week ending January 8, the hospitalization rate for Black Americans was 64 per 100,000 people, the report notes. That is double the overall weekly rate of hospitalizations for all races during the same time frame and nearly triple the rate of hospitalizations for White people at any point during the pandemic, according to a CNN analysis of CDC data.
“This was the highest weekly rate of any race and ethnicity at any point during the pandemic,” according to the report.
While Covid-19 hospitalizations have since fallen among all racial and ethnic groups and are now at their lowest point on record, CDC data from mid-March shows that weekly hospitalization rates were still highest among Black people and Native Americans in the US.
The report also references significant disparities in how the pandemic has affected children. One in 310 Black children lost a parent or caregiver between April 2020 and June 2021, compared with 1 in 738 White children.
The report mentions that “racial and ethnic disparities” are expected to persist as people continue to have long-term Covid-19 symptoms.
The report’s authors are physicians and public health experts including Tuckson and Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, who chaired President Biden’s Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force. They wrote that “the severity of COVID-19 among Black Americans was the predictable result of structural and societal realities, not differences in genetic predisposition.”
Now, Black health leaders call for more precise data on such racial disparities and how they affect public health.
“If we are going to effectively address health equity among Black Americans, having access to the most precise data is vital,” the report’s authors wrote.
As of this week, the CDC website tracking Covid-19 data says the agency “is working with states to provide more information on race/ethnicity for reported cases.” Currently, race and ethnicity data are available from the CDC for only 65% of total cases and 84% of deaths.
“This report draws attention to the continued disproportionate burden experienced by members of the Black community and will help guide advocacy and policy efforts to address these inequities—both during the current pandemic and beyond,” Nunez-Smith wrote in the report’s forward. She notes that she was commissioned by the Black Coalition Against Covid to produce the report.
“Given generations of systemic disinvestment in the health of Black communities in the United States, the starkly disproportionate rates of COVID-19 illness and death are not surprising,” Nunez-Smith wrote. “This report situates alarming pandemic-related disparities within these deeper societal inequities, and provides guidance to move towards sustained change.”
While the trajectory of the pandemic remains uncertain, Tuckson made clear the need to continue to spotlight the health of Black America amid Covid-19 and beyond.
“If we don’t do it, somebody else is going to have to do it,” he said. “We have a lot of work ahead of us and a lot of problems that have gotten so much worse.”
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CNN’s Deidre McPhillips contributed to this report.
Dude I thought this shit was fucking with Black people in the early days but come to find out this shit really did a bigger number on white people and continuing to do though so remember the only continent on This planet that can handle the virus well was Africa.This why our media ain't shit.
So wait. Now getting COVID does offer immunity too. Wasn't too long ago people who claimed that were put in the tin foil hat camp.
Also, could have fucking sworn that when this first happened in 2020 the goal was to stop hospitals from being overwhelmed. When was the fucking goal EVER to prevent mild cases?
We almost to the point where they(the cool kids, not folks who been saying it) just say seniors(who make up 80 percent of the deaths, obese people, and those who are in bad health- who tend to make up the rest of the deaths) only need to worry about this shit. Because they can't pass out boosters forever. Wait for it. Everything else has played out but that.
The rest of us who stay taking precautions are going to be looked at as freaks by mid-terms.
It's been a year since CDC declared racism a public health threat. Now what?
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline across the United States, health leaders warn that the crisis is not over — especially in the Black community. A new report details the disproportionate impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on Black...kion546.com
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
As Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline across the United States, health leaders warn that the crisis is not over — especially in the Black community.
A new report details the disproportionate impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on Black Americans and calls for “the most precise data” on race and ethnicity to address this health inequity.
The two-year report was released by the Black Coalition Against Covid-19 last week, ahead of Friday’s first anniversary of the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declaring racism “a serious public health threat.”
That declaration gave “legitimacy” to conversations that have been taking place across all sectors of health care for some time, said Dr. Reed Tuckson, co-founder of the coalition.
The statement also shows that the CDC understands structural racism to be a “fundamental root cause of so much of the health disparities in America,” Tuckson said. “This is not a political issue. It is a human health and survival issue.”
The new report not only serves as a reminder that the Covid-19 pandemic is not over — particularly for the Black community — it is a “call to action” to address problems that existed long before the pandemic, Tuckson added.
“Now that we go back and look at all that has happened to us and all that we’ve learned, it is now time to focus everybody’s attention on going back and fighting the old fight,” he said.
The striking racial disparities in Covid-19 outcomes seen over the past two years were not a result of the disease itself, but rather the pandemic “illuminated inequities that have existed for generations and revealed for all of America a known, but often unaddressed, epidemic impacting public health: racism,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a statement on April 8, 2021.
“Racism is not just the discrimination against one group based on the color of their skin or their race or ethnicity, but the structural barriers that impact racial and ethnic groups differently to influence where a person lives, where they work, where their children play, and where they worship and gather in community,” Walensky said. “These social determinants of health have life-long negative effects on the mental and physical health of individuals in communities of color.”
Since the start of the pandemic, the risk of dying from Covid-19 has been nearly twice as high for Black and Hispanic people in the United States than for White people, data from the CDC shows. Black and Hispanic people also faced a higher risk of coronavirus infection and were more than twice as likely to be hospitalized.
Even as Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths trend down in the United States, Black Americans recently experienced the “highest rate of hospitalization” for any racial and ethnic group since the inception of the pandemic, according to the new report.
During the week ending January 8, the hospitalization rate for Black Americans was 64 per 100,000 people, the report notes. That is double the overall weekly rate of hospitalizations for all races during the same time frame and nearly triple the rate of hospitalizations for White people at any point during the pandemic, according to a CNN analysis of CDC data.
“This was the highest weekly rate of any race and ethnicity at any point during the pandemic,” according to the report.
While Covid-19 hospitalizations have since fallen among all racial and ethnic groups and are now at their lowest point on record, CDC data from mid-March shows that weekly hospitalization rates were still highest among Black people and Native Americans in the US.
The report also references significant disparities in how the pandemic has affected children. One in 310 Black children lost a parent or caregiver between April 2020 and June 2021, compared with 1 in 738 White children.
The report mentions that “racial and ethnic disparities” are expected to persist as people continue to have long-term Covid-19 symptoms.
The report’s authors are physicians and public health experts including Tuckson and Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, who chaired President Biden’s Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force. They wrote that “the severity of COVID-19 among Black Americans was the predictable result of structural and societal realities, not differences in genetic predisposition.”
Now, Black health leaders call for more precise data on such racial disparities and how they affect public health.
“If we are going to effectively address health equity among Black Americans, having access to the most precise data is vital,” the report’s authors wrote.
As of this week, the CDC website tracking Covid-19 data says the agency “is working with states to provide more information on race/ethnicity for reported cases.” Currently, race and ethnicity data are available from the CDC for only 65% of total cases and 84% of deaths.
“This report draws attention to the continued disproportionate burden experienced by members of the Black community and will help guide advocacy and policy efforts to address these inequities—both during the current pandemic and beyond,” Nunez-Smith wrote in the report’s forward. She notes that she was commissioned by the Black Coalition Against Covid to produce the report.
“Given generations of systemic disinvestment in the health of Black communities in the United States, the starkly disproportionate rates of COVID-19 illness and death are not surprising,” Nunez-Smith wrote. “This report situates alarming pandemic-related disparities within these deeper societal inequities, and provides guidance to move towards sustained change.”
While the trajectory of the pandemic remains uncertain, Tuckson made clear the need to continue to spotlight the health of Black America amid Covid-19 and beyond.
“If we don’t do it, somebody else is going to have to do it,” he said. “We have a lot of work ahead of us and a lot of problems that have gotten so much worse.”
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CNN’s Deidre McPhillips contributed to this report.
Say bruh, we in the U.S. though. That's the result of the data I posted. In our own backyard. Our kinsfolk. Those numbers are frightening.
What's even more frightening is they were able to downplay the effects on OUR community while running to every potbelly MAGA cacs deathbed. So now when they stop mitigation efforts, the perception is they hurting redneck cacs when it's the black community going to suffer the most 'filling our great downtowns'.
This entire 2 years has been narratives, narratives, and more narratives. And it's disproportionately costing black lives in the U.S.
I really hope China is being forthcoming to the rest of the world about this particular variant that is causing them hell.
This why our media ain't shit.
So wait. Now getting COVID does offer immunity too. Wasn't too long ago people who claimed that were put in the tin foil hat camp.
Also, could have fucking sworn that when this first happened in 2020 the goal was to stop hospitals from being overwhelmed. When was the fucking goal EVER to prevent mild cases?
We almost to the point where they(the cool kids, not folks who been saying it) just say seniors(who make up 80 percent of the deaths, obese people, and those who are in bad health- who tend to make up the rest of the deaths) only need to worry about this shit. Because they can't pass out boosters forever. Wait for it. Everything else has played out but that.
The rest of us who stay taking precautions are going to be looked at as freaks by mid-terms.
It's been a year since CDC declared racism a public health threat. Now what?
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline across the United States, health leaders warn that the crisis is not over — especially in the Black community. A new report details the disproportionate impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on Black...
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
As Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline across the United States, health leaders warn that the crisis is not over — especially in the Black community.
A new report details the disproportionate impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on Black Americans and calls for “the most precise data” on race and ethnicity to address this health inequity.
The two-year report was released by the Black Coalition Against Covid-19 last week, ahead of Friday’s first anniversary of the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declaring racism “a serious public health threat.”
That declaration gave “legitimacy” to conversations that have been taking place across all sectors of health care for some time, said Dr. Reed Tuckson, co-founder of the coalition.
The statement also shows that the CDC understands structural racism to be a “fundamental root cause of so much of the health disparities in America,” Tuckson said. “This is not a political issue. It is a human health and survival issue.”
The new report not only serves as a reminder that the Covid-19 pandemic is not over — particularly for the Black community — it is a “call to action” to address problems that existed long before the pandemic, Tuckson added.
“Now that we go back and look at all that has happened to us and all that we’ve learned, it is now time to focus everybody’s attention on going back and fighting the old fight,” he said.
The striking racial disparities in Covid-19 outcomes seen over the past two years were not a result of the disease itself, but rather the pandemic “illuminated inequities that have existed for generations and revealed for all of America a known, but often unaddressed, epidemic impacting public health: racism,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a statement on April 8, 2021.
“Racism is not just the discrimination against one group based on the color of their skin or their race or ethnicity, but the structural barriers that impact racial and ethnic groups differently to influence where a person lives, where they work, where their children play, and where they worship and gather in community,” Walensky said. “These social determinants of health have life-long negative effects on the mental and physical health of individuals in communities of color.”
Since the start of the pandemic, the risk of dying from Covid-19 has been nearly twice as high for Black and Hispanic people in the United States than for White people, data from the CDC shows. Black and Hispanic people also faced a higher risk of coronavirus infection and were more than twice as likely to be hospitalized.
Even as Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths trend down in the United States, Black Americans recently experienced the “highest rate of hospitalization” for any racial and ethnic group since the inception of the pandemic, according to the new report.
During the week ending January 8, the hospitalization rate for Black Americans was 64 per 100,000 people, the report notes. That is double the overall weekly rate of hospitalizations for all races during the same time frame and nearly triple the rate of hospitalizations for White people at any point during the pandemic, according to a CNN analysis of CDC data.
“This was the highest weekly rate of any race and ethnicity at any point during the pandemic,” according to the report.
While Covid-19 hospitalizations have since fallen among all racial and ethnic groups and are now at their lowest point on record, CDC data from mid-March shows that weekly hospitalization rates were still highest among Black people and Native Americans in the US.
The report also references significant disparities in how the pandemic has affected children. One in 310 Black children lost a parent or caregiver between April 2020 and June 2021, compared with 1 in 738 White children.
The report mentions that “racial and ethnic disparities” are expected to persist as people continue to have long-term Covid-19 symptoms.
The report’s authors are physicians and public health experts including Tuckson and Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, who chaired President Biden’s Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force. They wrote that “the severity of COVID-19 among Black Americans was the predictable result of structural and societal realities, not differences in genetic predisposition.”
Now, Black health leaders call for more precise data on such racial disparities and how they affect public health.
“If we are going to effectively address health equity among Black Americans, having access to the most precise data is vital,” the report’s authors wrote.
As of this week, the CDC website tracking Covid-19 data says the agency “is working with states to provide more information on race/ethnicity for reported cases.” Currently, race and ethnicity data are available from the CDC for only 65% of total cases and 84% of deaths.
“This report draws attention to the continued disproportionate burden experienced by members of the Black community and will help guide advocacy and policy efforts to address these inequities—both during the current pandemic and beyond,” Nunez-Smith wrote in the report’s forward. She notes that she was commissioned by the Black Coalition Against Covid to produce the report.
“Given generations of systemic disinvestment in the health of Black communities in the United States, the starkly disproportionate rates of COVID-19 illness and death are not surprising,” Nunez-Smith wrote. “This report situates alarming pandemic-related disparities within these deeper societal inequities, and provides guidance to move towards sustained change.”
While the trajectory of the pandemic remains uncertain, Tuckson made clear the need to continue to spotlight the health of Black America amid Covid-19 and beyond.
“If we don’t do it, somebody else is going to have to do it,” he said. “We have a lot of work ahead of us and a lot of problems that have gotten so much worse.”
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yep…. Shit ain’t what some folks was telling us…..
I’m say this I knew way more of our people passed from this then I know of them other folks….
I deal with both sides too…
Eek
I'm actually seeing more CACs passing from Covid. I'm in California.
I suspect that the community impacts from Covid are mostly correlated with income levels. Pretty much every nationwide disaster hits the black community the hardest.
Right
At least some of America is paying attention
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