Black Doctors Say Pandemic Reveals Enduring Racial Inequity Medicine Alone Cannot Fix

These doctors see in their wards some of the African American patients who make up the vast majority of the city's COVID-19 fatalities. For Dr. Strudwick, Dr. Janice Blanchard at George Washington University Hospital and Dr. Marcee Wilder at United Medical Center, working amid the pandemic, inspires a sense of duty – and sometimes despair.

"The mayor was African American. All the doctors that I encountered were African American. Lawyers, politicians," Strudwick recalled."So you didn't see any obstacles in terms of what you could do." Growing up in Chicago, Blanchard said her family had modest means, too: her mother was a teacher and her father, a bus driver. While treating the pandemic, Blanchard and Wilder. They said COVID-19 was more fatal for their patients of color who had chronic disease; those patients developed those diseases because they lacked good food, space to exercise, housing and regular income.

"Nothing would have helped even if UMC was a brand new, $20 billion dollar hospital, that would not have changed the outcome that we're seeing in COVID," she said."This is not a medicine-related problem. This is a social determinants of health, poverty related, marginalized community problem."

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

Who loves golden shower?

Why might that be?

msm and their propaganda is relentless.. wow

And protestors aren't being tracked for Covid. Very political virus.

It’s a Democrat run city. What do you expect from the party of Jim Crow and the confederacy

Evan the COVID hates blacks

How in the hell is this the fault of medicine?

Coronavirus loves fried foods

So that means they either proved they hate blacks or it's a hoax 😂

Blacks make up 50% of DC. Of Course, Blacks make up the majority of fatalities.🧐

Pre conditions

This is lunacy. Its encouraged to protest, despite this, and further to have science shut down to bring awareness to blm. Then, black doctors addressing black patients with covid and how it proves institutional racism, because black men get it more often, blaming racism on a ..

My god...even Covid is racist now!!

It's a start

NPR is now a propaganda media outlet for the liberal left. Shame. I used to listen every morning.

Really good article. Worth the read.

Why does the Chinese Communist Party hate blacks? God knows what’s happening in Africa, where the CCP is actively colonizing...

Show me something that isn't racist and I will show you 456,896 things that are.

NPR just caught lying again - this time claiming 'white nationalists' were using cars to ram people. But the truth was someone was driving away to avoid being carjacked and likely beaten and killed.

Well I guess it's the Asian man keeping you down now.

$ 500+ Million Taxpayers money for NPR. let's Defund NPR from taxpayers money !!

Blacks make up 70% of the population of D.C. How could they not be the majority of patients.

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