Coronavirus: L.A. releases first racial breakdown of fatalities; African Americans have higher death rate
In New York, the discrepancy between rich white and poor black neighborhoods is so stark that Blackstock has closed a clinic in the relatively white, affluent area of Brooklyn Heights so that she can shift staff to clinics dealing with the surge of infected black and brown patients in Prospect Park South and Crown Heights.
In Louisiana, Dr. Joseph Kanter, assistant state health officer and medical director for the New Orleans region, said the disproportionate number of African Americans who had been infected and died with COVID-19 was “concerning and disheartening,” but “not entirely surprising given the degree of health disparities and inequity we know exist in Louisiana.”
“We have to look into the data and see what could potentially explain this,” he added. “New Orleans is a city that’s known to have a lot of health disparities.” But even after a neighbor died on March 24, he said, many of his neighbors were not taking precautions.In the mid-city subdivision of Timberwoods, Tabby Granville said she did everything she could to keep her 79-year-old father, Felix Phillips, out of the hospital after he started feeling sick.
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