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70% Of People Dying From Coronavirus In Chicago Are Black, Report Says
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APR 5, 2020
CHICAGO — Black coronavirus victims are dying at disproportionately high rates, a problem Gov. JB Pritzker said is due, in part, to “decades, frankly, maybe centuries, of inequality of application of health care to people of color.”
In Chicago, 70 percent of the people who have died from coronavirus are Black, according to a WBEZ analysis. Black people comprise just 29 percent of Chicago’s population.
Statewide, about 30 percent of the people dying from coronavirus are Black, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, said Sunday. Black people are about 14.6 percent of the state’s population, according to 2019 census estimates.
“We know all too well that there are general disparities in health outcomes that play along these racial lines and the same may be true for this virus,” Ezike said.
The state has worked to address health care disparities in Black and Brown communities, and resources will be directed where they are most desperately needed, Ezike said. The state will provide an updated breakdown of coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.
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Sorry, BlockClubChicago this has nothing to do with discrimination. Yes such things are possible. This is about lifestyle. Blacks have a much higher rate of obesity, type 2 diabetes and kidney disease .....the very conditions which place CV19 patients at risk of severity and death
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4830390/
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70% Of People Dying From Coronavirus In Chicago Are Black, Report Says
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APR 5, 2020
CHICAGO — Black coronavirus victims are dying at disproportionately high rates, a problem Gov. JB Pritzker said is due, in part, to “decades, frankly, maybe centuries, of inequality of application of health care to people of color.”
In Chicago, 70 percent of the people who have died from coronavirus are Black, according to a WBEZ analysis. Black people comprise just 29 percent of Chicago’s population.
Statewide, about 30 percent of the people dying from coronavirus are Black, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, said Sunday. Black people are about 14.6 percent of the state’s population, according to 2019 census estimates.
“We know all too well that there are general disparities in health outcomes that play along these racial lines and the same may be true for this virus,” Ezike said.
The state has worked to address health care disparities in Black and Brown communities, and resources will be directed where they are most desperately needed, Ezike said. The state will provide an updated breakdown of coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.
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Sorry, BlockClubChicago this has nothing to do with discrimination. Yes such things are possible. This is about lifestyle. Blacks have a much higher rate of obesity, type 2 diabetes and kidney disease .....the very conditions which place CV19 patients at risk of severity and death
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4830390/
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