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#Speakingof COVID
The Pandemic has exposed the depths of health disparities present in America

As data on these health disparities emerge it has revealed this issue is #PERVASIVE

Let's Discuss!
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#SayhisnameGeorgeFloyd was found to be COVID+ on his autopsy...what?!?! Yep @RUBraveEnough @arghavan_salles
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Large cities have major Disparities in-terms of COVID-19
@EmoryDeptofMed @EmoryRollins now has a data tracker to track COVID across a number of categories @CarlosdelRio7 @JenniferSpicer4 #ShareTheMicNowMed
@EmoryNews @EmoryDOMRyse @docwithapurpose
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"~70% of the people who have died from COVID-19 in LA are black, a striking disparity for a state where African-Americans make up only 32% of the population that is attributed to entrenched racial divides around economic opportunity and healthcare access" nola.com/news/coronavir…
🗽In NewYork, "The coronavirus is killing black and Latino people... at twice the rate that it is killing white people"

nytimes.com/2020/04/08/nyr…
Given this how do we have the conversation about such disparities without condemning the victims of such inequity?!?!
#thinking #wordsmatter
#ShareTheMicNowMed

Well, I @TypicallySilent am so glad you asked!
"to mitigate myths of racial biology, behavioral explanations predicated on racial stereotypes, and territorial stigmatization, Covid-19 disparities should be situated in the context of material resource deprivation caused by low SES...racial discrimination, or place-based risk"
Okay, that was a lot of words-basically, put this inequity in context of the social circumstances of centuries of oppression/racism/prejudice.

Don't indict someone for the struggle they were born into!

#WordsMatter #ShareTheMicNowMed @TypicallySilent

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