Thread by @michaelharriot

Well actually, medical Jim Crow BEEN here.

And I know white folks are gonna point to poverty and "socioeconomic status" but I'mma just post some facts:

A thread

https://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1399879877445181448

Census tracts with predominantly black populations are more than 2x as likely to lose hospitals, clinics and pharmacies.

And it's not just "poverty."

When they controlled for income, mortality rate & ppl over 65, the disparities were even HIGHER.

upi.com/Health_News/20…

Again, it's not poverty. Another study found:

"25.6% of Blacks live in zip codes with few or no primary care physicians, compared to 9.6% of Asian and 13.2 % of Whites. The disparity disappeared for Hispanics after controlling for socioeconomic factors."

beckershospitalreview.com/quality/where-…

Maybe because HALF of white medical students believe myths like:

Black people’s nerve endings are less sensitive than white people’s
Black people’s skin is thicker than white people’s
Black people’s blood coagulates more quickly than white people’s

pnas.org/content/113/16…

A meta-analysis of 20 years of studies concluded that "black/African American patients were 22% less likely than white patients to receive any pain medication."

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22239747

When you read about Black people being reluctant to take the vaccine, I used a process called MATH to determine the "REAL VACCINATION RATE"

When factoring in vaccination distribution, population percentage AND HESITANCY only 5 states offered equal access to the COVID vaccine.

In NC, whites were 63% of the population, 62% of COVID cases, 58% of hospitalizations but 80% of vaccinations.

Even when we factored in reluctance, whites in NC were ~1.5x more likely to be vaccinated.

In Penn., the white-Black disparity was 5 to 1.

theroot.com/invasion-of-th…

And I understand if wypipo think the vaccine is experimental. No one likes being experimented on.

Like how medical schools (ESPECIALLY the University of SC medical school) trained doctors by having them experiment on slaves and "free person of color"

jstor.org/stable/2207450…

Or in 1948, when the U.S. government paid researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital to give 582 Baltimore schoolchildren free adenoidectomy...

But were actually inserting radioactive rods in the children’s noses

Or from 1960-1971 when the government subjected poor black cancer patients to whole-body radiation for an experimental cancer treatment

Except there was no cancer treatment, they were actually testing to see how soldiers' bodies would respond to nuclear weapons.

Or when the government sprayed a Black St. Louis neighborhood for mosquitos in the 1950s...

But they were actually testing a radioactive biological weapon. 70 percent of the people sprayed were under 12 years old.

businessinsider.com/army-sprayed-s…

Or when the state of NC sterilized Black women in a secret eugenics program to get rid of what @SandyDarity called the "Black surplus"

newsobserver.com/news/state/nor…

If you listen closely, you can hear the world's tiniest banjo playing for the brave wypipo warriors battling "medical Jim Crow."

To white people, wearing a mask & carrying a card is JUST LIKE Black people enduring 250 years of legal, state-sponsored genocide.

EXACTLY the same.