Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/09/black-and-latino-new-yorkers-a.html
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Something similar has also been observed in Britain
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In Louisiana, 70% of deaths are among black residents (32% of state). That means a 5x* higher death rate among black residents. Part of that is due to New Orleans having most of the covid-19 deaths in the state, but even by parish there is a big discrepancy. It should come as no surprise; access to healthcare, job security, polution exposure, and housing are all heavily unequal
*(70/32)/(30/68) = 4.96
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Conservatives are already spinning this as “black people are just irresponsible and ignorant about taking precautions”.
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Well thats easily addressed by comparing covid infection and death rates.
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Wouldn’t it be more useful to be looking separately at the rate black and Latino patients are being infected, and then the rate of infected who are dying?
Only talking about deaths per the overall (including healthy) population seems too simplistic.
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And unfortunately, that would be all too easily ignored.
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Dr. Fauci mentioned this a couple briefings ago (and even Trump acknowledged it some.)
It’s almost like systemic racism leads to poverty which affects the health of those it oppresses leading to conditions that make survival of Covid19 less likely. 
Hopefully it isn’t affecting amount or quality of care in these cases. Hopefully.
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That train is never late.
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Sadly, we have plenty of existing evidence of racism in health care, so…
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True, I am just hoping in this case with the high profile of the disease they won’t be dismissed like they might be with other issues.
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great you should listen to them and paraphrase their lies on the internet, where what you write lasts forever.
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How about a class action lawsuit? a raid? a protest?
Likely, the only way to get certain people to shut the fuck up is to captain hook their asses. 
No, I mean turn around and deny their very existence.
In my state, white people get stimulus package first. Is this the rule everywhere? When I applied they said they were out of money, but plenty of folks got the PPP and EIDL stuff for their businesses, or they say they did. Starting to believe the 2.2 trillion was racists’ hoax.
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MoJo ran this story on the topic today:
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heck, npr had a report on how it’s down to the disinformation and distrust that exists in black american communities.
the interviewee’s perspective has a lot of merit, but the framing of the piece itself is mind blowing.
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Ugh. Surprised they didn’t add that black men especially get it more because it slips where their pants are about to fall off.
NPR has long struck me as catering to bougie white liberals, with all of the attendant asuumptions and prejudices in play most of the time.
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