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| All but three people who died from COVID-19 in a major US city were black | |
| 2020-04-13 | |
| [Business Insider] In St. Louis, Missouri, all but three people who have died after being infected with the coronavirus were African American. In St. Louis, at least 14 of the city's 17 residents who died from the novel virus were also African American. 17 person sample? Obviously reparations are in order All of the St. Louis' reported COVID-19 deaths were African American until April 10, when the City of St. Louis Department of Health reported the first deaths outside the racial minority group. The deaths of a Hispanic female in her 50s, a white male in 90s, and a woman in her 80s whose race was not identified in reports to the public health officials were announced on Friday in a press release. Broadly, the novel virus has ravaged St. Louis' black community. Of the confirmed coronavirus cases whose race was reported in St. Louis County, 55% positive cases were black while 36.6% were white, according to data obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis County. (40% of St. Louis County's positive cases were unknown.) Although African Americans make up more than half of St. Louis' coronavirus cases, only 24.9% of its population is African American only, while 68.2% of its population are white only, according to the US Census Bureau. However, the unfortunate reality is that St. Louis is not the only US city to be grappling with the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19. "If you look at the health disparities in the city of St. Louis, they're not unique," St. Louis' health director Dr. Fredrick Echols said during a briefing Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. "Inequities exist across the U.S. and across the world, and it's posed a challenge for public health agencies, (which) have to address those issues and ensure all individuals, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, income, or educational attainment have access to quality health-related resources," he added. The novel coronavirus has swept across the country infecting more than 542,000 and killing over 21,000 in the US alone, according to data collected by John Hopkins. As the number of people stricken by the coronavirus continues to soar, emerging data on the novel virus in the country shows that black communities have been hardest hit by the novel virus. In Chicago, African Americans make up 30% of the population — but 72% of the people who've died from COVID-19 were black. The racial disparity is also evident in emerging data on coronavirus deaths in Louisiana, Illinois, New Jersey, and Michigan, according to CNN.
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| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #16 Does this include E St Louis in Illinois? |
| Posted by: Beavis 2020-04-13 14:12 |
| #15 spot on 49Pan, hopefully Rae will pull through |
| Posted by: 746 2020-04-13 14:04 |
| #14 The author of this article apparently does not distinguish between St. Louis City and St. Louis County. They are two separate entities. |
| Posted by: Tom 2020-04-13 11:31 |
| #13 If I were black, I'd want someone to look into exactly why this is happening. But under current political circumstances this can't happen. Catch 22. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2020-04-13 11:21 |
| #12 The Black communities largely ignored the requests to stay at home. They held conferences in Sun Valley, and infected the city, as one of many examples. Its not a racial issues, they decided to ignore it and Darwin took over. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2020-04-13 10:54 |
| #11 Michigan mother loses her entire family to coronavirus as her husband, 59, and only son, 20, die within days of one another |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-13 09:48 |
| #10 If you die in a car crash and test positive for CV, it wasn't the crash that killed you. Below's a quick data grab. Makes me wonder if they were Medicaid participants (poorly run facilities), and if the spike of deaths in inner cities is a factor of state run/city run health care programs. Female, 50-59, with underlying medical conditions Female, 80-89, with underlying medical conditions Female, 60-69, with underlying medical conditions Male, 80-89, with underlying medical conditions If you are keeping count: CV African deaths from the continent are less than 800. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2020-04-13 09:36 |
| #9 /\ Yes, a very good example. Analyst Notebook (AnB) is another. Here is a video example. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-13 09:29 |
| #8 Palintir's? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-13 09:25 |
| #7 /\ Spot on! Hence the 'social distancing' (frequently ignored) admonition. There have been some absolutely amazing intelligence community computer tools developed over the past 12-15 years that have taken the art of terrorism social networking and analysis to an entirely new level. While for obvious reasons not frequently discussed, I am relatively certain these analytic tools are being employed in the CV fight. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-13 08:47 |
| #6 Disease spreads along social networks, not geography or income. I bet you can connect all the dead and most of the ill together socially. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-04-13 08:45 |
| #5 the novel virus has ravaged St. Louis' black community. 14 black victims? That sounds like a slow weekend in Chi town. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-04-13 08:29 |
| #4 So we have ages of the three non-blabk victims but not the others. Hmmm. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-13 05:42 |
| #3 Still less than the St Louis murder stats.. |
| Posted by: Neville and Tenille3829 2020-04-13 03:43 |
| #2 A bio-engineered racial vector? Who knew ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-13 02:52 |
| #1 Don't worry St. Louis, before it's over hundreds will die - a lot of them white. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-13 01:35 |