A study published last week said poor and minority communities suffered the most from the coronavirus outbreak. While this is just making the news, we have reported the hard data of health, living, and working conditions that puts them at risk.
The Wall Street Journal reported that from March through May in New York City, the fatality rate was 9.2 percent overall and 32.1 percent of those hospitalized. The report said deaths peaked in NYC during the week of 5 April. Most fatalities were patients over 75, and the incidence of the disease was highest among African-Americans and Latinos, the paper said.
Peter J. Fos, an epidemiologist in Louisiana, told the Washington Post that the flu is usually indiscriminate and sweeps through offices and rich and poor communities alike. But he told the paper that in the spring, he noticed the virus was ravaging the state’s Black communities, and he said his colleagues in Mississippi noticed the same trend. (See our 9 June article, “AFRICAN AMERICANS HIT HARD BY COVID.”)
“We don’t tend to think of infectious diseases as being a health disparity,” he said, “but here it was in front of me.”
TRENDPOST: Over and over, the data confirms who is dying from the virus and why, but it is ignored by the Presstitutes who keep selling “cases” and pandemic fear and hysteria. The Journal reported that of the Black and Latino patients who died from the disease, the majority suffered two or more underlying health issues. Indeed, we have long reported the CDC’s findings that 94 percent of virus victims had 2.6 pre-existing chronic health conditions.
Yet, rather than design protocols to protect those most susceptible to the virus, they impose broad draconian lockdown rules on entire societies.
Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease specialist with Johns Hopkins University, told WPXI.com that the most vulnerable are those over the age of 60 and “have underlying conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, asthma, people who are immune-suppressed by cancer (and) chemotherapy.”
