I see comments about poverty and obesity/ comorbidity rates in these comments and feel the need to talk a little about systemic racism in the US... https://twitter.com/queenchristina_/status/1248000279980670977

It's so complicated. Systemic racism is a 3 dimensional web and each thread reinforces and contributes to the others.
Housing discrimination leads to environmental factors that lead to health problems. Health problems contribute to poverty. Poverty contributes to heath problems

Housing discrimination also aids the racism in our justice system, where Black neighborhoods are heavily policed, while higher crime rates are justified by -and contribute to- individual bias. Imprisonment exacerbates poverty.

Medical racism is also a factor. There are all kinds of studies that show that Black people in the US are less likely to be treated with priority or even be believed about their symptoms by healthcare workers.

Generational trauma, educational inequality, workplace discrimination, all of these contribute to & are reinforced by the other factors above.

ALL OF THIS revolves around white people's willingness to not see the forest for the trees, or indifference to our racism problem

My point being, when studies are done about why the morbidity rate of Covid 19 were higher among Black Americans they will be inconclusive or inaccurate because systemic racism is too complicated to measure in this way.