COVID-19: Chicago's mayor reveals that black residents account for 72% of deaths in the city

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Alarming data shows people of color across the US are more likely to become infected and die from COVID-19 as Chicago's mayor reveals that black residents account for 72% of deaths in the city



• Cities with large African American populations like Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit and Milwaukee are becoming hotspots for the coronavirus

• In Chicago, black residents accounted for 72% of deaths from COVID-19 and 52% of positive tests for coronavirus, despite making up 30% of city's population

• Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday: 'We are all in this crisis together but we are not all experiencing this crisis in the same way'

• In Michigan, black people account for 40% of state's reported deaths, according to state's data, but its population is only 14% African American

• Democratic lawmakers have urged HHS Secretary Alex Azar to ensure data on race and ethnicities of patients tested for COVID-19 is collected and published

Black and brown communities across the United States are more likely to die from COVID-19, according to early data, which also highlights the longstanding disparities in health and inequalities in access to medical care.

The numbers are particularly alarming in cities with large African American populations like Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit and Milwaukee, which are becoming hotspots for the coronavirus.

In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said that more than half of Chicagoans who have died from COVID-19 are African Americans.

'We are all in this crisis together but we are not all experiencing this crisis in the same way,' Lightfoot said Monday.



The World Health Organization has said people with pre-existing conditions like asthma and other chronic lung disorders, diabetes and heart disease appear to develop serious illness more often than others.

That makes the virus particularly dangerous for African Americans, who because of environmental and economic factors have higher rates of those illnesses, said Dr Summer Johnson McGee, dean of the School of Health Sciences at the University of New Haven.

McGee said she was not surprised the US black population is experiencing a worse outcome during the pandemic.

She explained that racism has led to a lack of investment in African American communities and worse health care for the population in general.

'A pandemic just magnifies the disparities in healthcare that many communities of color face,' she said.

'Part of what we´re seeing in Detroit is that there's such a high number of individuals who have those underlying conditions, who have the diabetes and the heart disease, who may have obesity,' Dr Joneigh Khaldun, Michigan's chief medical executive who previously led Detroit´s health department, said earlier this month.

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The World Health Organization has said people with pre-existing conditions like asthma and other chronic lung disorders, diabetes and heart disease appear to develop serious illness more often than others.

That makes the virus particularly dangerous for African Americans, who because of environmental and economic factors have higher rates of those illnesses, said Dr Summer Johnson McGee, dean of the School of Health Sciences at the University of New Haven.

1.) Lung disorders from smoking crack cocaine, tobacco and marijuana ? Blame whitey instead of blaming the low IQ niggers !

2.) Diabetes and heart disease ? Contrary to popular opinion you can afford healthy food on foodstamps but instead low IQ niggers eat fast food, grape soda and fried chicken. For instance, you can eat rice, some vegetables and sardines Sushi like Asian high IQ style on food stamps but not it is whitey's fault niggers have low IQs ! Many niggers sell their foodstamps for crack cocaine anyway !

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1.) Lung disorders from smoking crack cocaine, tobacco and marijuana ? Blame whitey instead of blaming the low IQ niggers !

2.) Diabetes and heart disease ? Contrary to popular opinion you can afford healthy food on foodstamps but instead low IQ niggers eat fast food, grape soda and fried chicken. For instance, you can eat rice, some vegetables and sardines Sushi like Asian high IQ style on food stamps but not it is whitey's fault niggers have low IQs ! Many niggers sell their foodstamps for crack cocaine anyway !

It was a nice way of euphemistically describing the problem.