Why African Americans are dying at higher rates from COVID-19

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“We know that blacks are more likely to have diabetes, heart disease, lung disease.”

People wearing masks to try and prevent the spread of COVID-19, known as coronavirus, leave a supermarket in Washington, DC, April 7, 2020/ SAUL LOEB / AFP

“We know that blacks are more likely to have diabetes, heart disease, lung disease,” the nation’s top doctor, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, told CBS News on Tuesday.Adams, who is himself black and has high blood pressure and asthma, added: “I represent that legacy of growing up poor and black in America.

“That population is more public facing,” he said. “More bus drivers, more people taking public transportation to work, more people providing services in nursing homes, more folks working in grocery stores.”The issue is also likely exacerbated by pre-existing prejudice that black people face in the medical system.

There are already fears that, as historically underserved communities, black people and other groups like Latinos will have less access to testing, which in turn is vital in getting early treatment.

 

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