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1/🧵 Race & Medicine - #COVID
Dark-skinned people who get #COVID, or any disease lowering O2 levels, are more likely vs whites to suffer undetected hypoxemia (missed ⬇️ O2 levels).
Pulse oximeters are affected by skin color & read falsely high in Blacks.
Does it matter?
Dark-skinned people who get #COVID, or any disease lowering O2 levels, are more likely vs whites to suffer undetected hypoxemia (missed ⬇️ O2 levels).
Pulse oximeters are affected by skin color & read falsely high in Blacks.
Does it matter?
2/ It matters because undetected hypoxemia tripled the odds of DEATH đź’€
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This study of >128k measurements from 26,000 pts confirmed these inaccuracies that we’ve known about for 30 years.
Black, Asian & Am Indians were all included. #Disparity
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This study of >128k measurements from 26,000 pts confirmed these inaccuracies that we’ve known about for 30 years.
Black, Asian & Am Indians were all included. #Disparity
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bit.ly/3KaNAAj
3/ It’s not lost on me that this study comes at a time when we’re trying to get RID of false distinctions of race in medicine.
MYTHS generated by #racism about Blacks having different lung or kidney function are bogus.
But the Pulse Ox must addressed: bit.ly/3uZIrEG
MYTHS generated by #racism about Blacks having different lung or kidney function are bogus.
But the Pulse Ox must addressed: bit.ly/3uZIrEG
All of this. #MyStanceHasNotChanged.
The fact that we willingly expose our kids to #COVID19 is beyond me. Opening schools knowing full well structural racism exists preventing adequate social distancing & the lack of proper ventilation is a setup for further #RacialDisparities
The fact that we willingly expose our kids to #COVID19 is beyond me. Opening schools knowing full well structural racism exists preventing adequate social distancing & the lack of proper ventilation is a setup for further #RacialDisparities
▶️ 25% of Black 9th graders are in classrooms w/ >40 students: 2x rate of Hispanics, 3x rate of Whites
▶️ Urban vs Rural, 12.5x more likely to be overcrowded
▶️ richest 10% of districts spend 10x more than poorest 10%: literally use old buildings w/ poor ventilation & high lead
▶️ Urban vs Rural, 12.5x more likely to be overcrowded
▶️ richest 10% of districts spend 10x more than poorest 10%: literally use old buildings w/ poor ventilation & high lead
The impact of #SystemicRacism has been far reaching and long standing in #Education.
Source: stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org/post/which-stu…
Source: stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org/post/which-stu…
The #COVID19 crisis put millions of Americans in financial peril, hitting households of color particularly hard and moratoriums on utility shutoffs instituted in many states to #ProtectConsumers have already expired. 1/6 nclc.org/media-center/c…
Millions of utility customers face the threat of shutoff due to the inability to pay their #energy bills and unpaid #utilitybills are accruing across the country. #COVID19 #LIHEAP #HomeworkGap #Lifeline #ProtectHomeowners 2/6 nclc.org/media-center/c…
New analysis from @NCLC4consumers finds that without additional aid and flexible repayment programs, millions of families and #smallbiz will face or are already facing a mountain of debt that they can’t pay, placing them at high risk of disconnection. 3/6 nclc.org/media-center/c…
#racialdisparities @PIH @InequityKills
Many have proclaimed COVID to be the great equalizer. It is not. COVID metes harsher punishment to those with so-called pre-existing conditions. Yet, the factor most associated with a shortened life span in the United States, is zip code.
Many have proclaimed COVID to be the great equalizer. It is not. COVID metes harsher punishment to those with so-called pre-existing conditions. Yet, the factor most associated with a shortened life span in the United States, is zip code.
Zip code is the pre-existing condition that will lay bare the ravages of our privatized, profit-making, fragmented health “system.” Zip code will define in large measure who lives and who dies, who gets a ventilator and who does not. @ACLU_Mass
Encoded in this measure are centuries of slavery, stolen native lands, forcibly outlined reservations, plantations never divvied into 40 acres, decades of Jim Crow, red-lining, impoverished school systems, failed public housing projects, and mass incarceration. @newjimcrowdata
