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1/ Overly focusing on how COVID19 may be amplified by protests misses the point that systemic racism against Black Americans - the target of the protests - is driving both the epidemic & police violence in this country https://qz.com/1862403/black-people-are-at-the-center-of-two-public-health-crises-in-the-us-covid-19-and-police-brutality/
1/ Overly focusing on how COVID19 may be amplified by protests misses the point that systemic racism against Black Americans - the target of the protests - is driving both the epidemic & police violence in this country https://qz.com/1862403/black-people-are-at-the-center-of-two-public-health-crises-in-the-us-covid-19-and-police-brutality/
2/ Black Americans are 3x more likely to be killed by police than whites
In 8 cities, there's a higher chance that police will kill a Black person than someone from the general US population will get killed by anyone, police or otherwise https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
In 8 cities, there's a higher chance that police will kill a Black person than someone from the general US population will get killed by anyone, police or otherwise https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
3/ At an eerily similar rate, Black Americans appear to be 3.5x more likely to die from COVID19 than white Americans https://twitter.com/UREssien/status/1262174159838359553?s=20
4/ In the largest health system in Louisiana, one of the states hardest hit by COVID19, Blacks made up 31% of the patient population but more than 70% of people who were hospitalized or died from COVID19 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2011686?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social
5/ After weeks of social distancing, the people who are still getting COVID19 in NYC are frontline, essential workers - many who are people of color - & those living in predominantly neighborhoods of color https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-new-cases.html
6/ In this mass community testing effort in San Francisco, not a single person who tested positive was white - despite white people making up 34% of the area's population https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/28/sobering-finding-covid19-struck-mostly-low-wage-essential-workers-san-francisco/
7/ For those of us who claim to care about public health & stopping COVID19, we need to call systemic racism what it is &, rather than shy away from doing so to avoid sounding "controversial," fight just as hard against it as we do for more testing, PPE, & so on
