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POTUS weighs in on disproportionate impact the coronavirus is having on African-Americans:
“We’re actively engaging on the problem of increased impacts -- this is a real problem and it’s showing up very strongly in our data -- on the African-American community....
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“We’re actively engaging on the problem of increased impacts -- this is a real problem and it’s showing up very strongly in our data -- on the African-American community....
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2/ “... And we’re doing everything in our power to address this challenge. It’s a tremendous challenge. It’s terrible....It’s been disproportional. They’re getting hit very hard.”
3/ Fauci calls it an “exacerbation of a health disparity.”
“We’ve known, literally forever, that diseases like diabetes, hypertension, obesity and asthma are disproportionally afflicting the minority populations, particularly the African-Americans...
“We’ve known, literally forever, that diseases like diabetes, hypertension, obesity and asthma are disproportionally afflicting the minority populations, particularly the African-Americans...
4/ “Unfortunately, when you look at the predisposing conditions that lead to a bad outcome with coronavirus, the things that get people into ICUs, that require intubation and often lead to death, they’re just those very comorbidities that are unfortunately disproportionately...
5/ “... prevalent in the African-American population.”He added, “It’s very sad. There’s nothing we can do about it now except try and give them the best possible care to avoid those complications.”
— @maeganvaz
— @maeganvaz
