Detroit. The history of my city is racially-charged and rooted in the effects of structural and individualized racism. #COVID19 exposed that. As a #SickleCell physician who cares for black patients with #chronicpain and #chronic disease, I have known that for a long time 1/n #Detroit has the largest black community in the country (84.3%). In 1910 it was 98.7% white, but by 1930, due to the Great Migration the black community grew. The increase in diversity was perceived as a threat to the way of life and the isolation of black people began. 2/n

Alright, should we do this? I'm going to attempt my first mini-#tweetatorial on this little capsule right here...

#hydroxyurea is currently the mainstay of disease modifying therapy in #sicklecell disease and with the new landscape of therapeutics, I think we should dive in /1 It was a century before its first clinical use in cancer that hydroxyurea was created by Drs. Dresler and Stein in Germany. The first approval for clinical use came in 1967 from the @US_FDA for oncological indications. /2