#Disparities

Mayor Ted Wheeler

I wanted to share some of the difficult but necessary conversations I've had with friends, colleagues, and partners in our black community. We talked about the moment we are in

Adan Z Becerra, PhD

Corona has always been larger than just an infectious disease problem. Now that we are seeing early data on racial disparities, social epidemiologists must now step up to the plate.

Esther Choo MD MPH

I wish more health disparities research would move beyond describing the problems to understanding and solving them. "Our hypothesis is that X patients will have [more of a bad outcome]

Black Virginians could be in greater danger from the coronavirus, both contracting it and facing serious health consequences. But bad data — again! — has stymied the state and made

Bc when you advocate against universal healthcare, a living wage, paid sick leave, public education and environmental regulations, the virus disproportionately impacts communities of color and black Americans get sick

Leonydus Johnson (leave/me/alone)

LeonydusJohnson

Apparently this needs to be explained because people don't understand proportionality. When it comes to police shootings, BLMers love to look at population disparities while completely ignoring crime rate disparities,

I have something to say ... This is an email we received from a viewer yesterday after a segment we did on the racial health disparities that have become evident

Audrey Dorélien

We use @ipums ATUS data to test whether Blacks have greater number of contacts compared to other racial/ethnic groups. We wanted to see if diff in number of contacts might

Looking over racial dist data for #NYC #COVID19 deaths, I'm struck by #hypertension issues. The #SARSCoV2 virus acts thru angiotensin receptors - related to hypertension. It would be great @NYCHealthCommr

#CriticalRaceTheorists will often cite racial disparities as evidence of racism. You might think that this claim is just naive or simplistic, but the real reason for this assertion goes far

mo torres the tenth

On the (seemingly endless) study of disparities in the social sciences: the question isn’t whether a disparity exists; the question is how evidence of a disparity will spur people to

I find a lot of people do not understand that working in public health means contending with the effects of racism on a very direct level.A thread …1/8 Racism is

Hey @SenTedCruz, Black women, Native Women, and Alaskan Native Women are three times more likely to die during childbirth. Have you considered working on racial disparities as a public health

Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D

I mean... I’m glad the media cares about health disparities all of a sudden, but coronavirus isn’t “revealing” anything that wasn’t already revealed long ago in birth outcomes, prevalence of

Omolara Uwemedimo MD, MPH

I can't keep quiet on how problematic #Fauci's comments were. 1) Black and brown people aren't more likely to get infected? Really? Even when they are more likely to have

Elizabeth Warren

Coronavirus doesn’t discriminate, but racial disparities in our health care system may mean Black and Brown families aren't being tested or treated equally for COVID-19. @RepPressley and I want @HHSGov