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@AmerAcadPeds and I made a short video on racial health inequities amid COVID19 and their impacts on kids and families.
Here are a few takeaways. Thread.
Here are a few takeaways. Thread.
Currently, only 26 states (in blue) are reporting COVID19 deaths by race and ethnicity.
That means we have yet to appreciate the *full* scope of potential racial health inequities related to COVID19, as data remains unavailable for certain counties, states, and populations.
That means we have yet to appreciate the *full* scope of potential racial health inequities related to COVID19, as data remains unavailable for certain counties, states, and populations.
The available data suggest the impact on African Americans is profound and grave.
Health inequities (differences in health that are avoidable, unfair and unjust) arise when certain groups are *made* vulnerable.
Referring to populations as "vulnerable" naturalizes the process by which vulnerability is *created* thru deprivation, violence, and discrimination.
Referring to populations as "vulnerable" naturalizes the process by which vulnerability is *created* thru deprivation, violence, and discrimination.
Populations are *made* vulnerable to illness and its complications because of structural conditions (in red) that make people sick, limit access to protections to prevent sickness, and limit access to supports that ameliorate sickness and address the economic toll of disease.
