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California Latino, Black residents hit even harder by coronavirus as white people see less danger https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-27/california-latinos-black-people-hit-even-harder-by-coronavirus
Racism has a pernicious effect on health that can begin in childhood and leave people of color less healthy than their white counterparts, experts say, leaving them more susceptible to chronic illness, and as a result, death in a pandemic. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-27/california-latinos-black-people-hit-even-harder-by-coronavirus
Latino&Black residents have died from COVID-19 at TWICE the rate of white residents in L.A. County
• Of every 100,000 Latino residents, 38 have died
• Of every 100,000 Black residents, 37 have died
• Of every 100,000 white residents, 19 have died https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-27/california-latinos-black-people-hit-even-harder-by-coronavirus
• Of every 100,000 Latino residents, 38 have died
• Of every 100,000 Black residents, 37 have died
• Of every 100,000 white residents, 19 have died https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-27/california-latinos-black-people-hit-even-harder-by-coronavirus
Black residents are "overrepresented in the low-wage essential workforce, in healthcare, in food production & distribution, in other types of occupations that have been essential in keeping our streets & hospitals clean and keeping our environment safe," @KBibbinsDomingo says
“Racism operates as a chronic stress that can lead to toxic stress on a biological level,” @UCSFBenioffOAK's Dr. Dayna Long says. The more doses of chronic stress & adversity, the worse impact on your physical and mental health — and it’s cumulative. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-27/california-latinos-black-people-hit-even-harder-by-coronavirus
"This exposure to racism can cause poor health outcomes that are extending across the lifespan,” @UCSFBenioffOAK's Dr. Dayna Long says, & can affect things like rates of respiratory tract infection & asthma. That puts folks at higher risk in pandemics https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-27/california-latinos-black-people-hit-even-harder-by-coronavirus
Racism contributes to health disparities that can persist independent of wealth or education. Statistically, a highly educated Black woman has a much higher chance of giving birth to a premature baby than an equally educated white woman, Dr. Long told me https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-27/california-latinos-black-people-hit-even-harder-by-coronavirus
And a lot of it, she said, “is because of chronic stress and fatigue secondary to issues like discrimination.” Read more here https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-27/california-latinos-black-people-hit-even-harder-by-coronavirus
