Ameliorating COVID-19’s Disproportionate Impact on Black and Hispanic Communities: Proposed Policy Initiatives for the United States

The COVID-19 epidemic has shone a bright light on structural racism in US society and on the inadequacies of a health care system that has significantly disadvantaged racial and ethnic minorities while giving preference to white Americans. Research and disease surveillance have documented the dispro...

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Published in:Health and human rights 2020-12, Vol.22 (2), p.329-332
Main Author: CHAPMAN, AUDREY
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American Indians
Bioethics
Black people
Brightness
Community
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Data
Disadvantaged
Disease control
Epidemics
Ethnic groups
Health care
Health surveillance
Hispanic people
Indigenous peoples
Local authorities
Minority groups
Prevention
Surveillance
Systemic racism
VIEWPOINT
White people
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Summary:The COVID-19 epidemic has shone a bright light on structural racism in US society and on the inadequacies of a health care system that has significantly disadvantaged racial and ethnic minorities while giving preference to white Americans. Research and disease surveillance have documented the disproportionate impact of the virus on the Black and Hispanic communities. Confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths are disproportionately higher in communities in which these groups predominate. According to data from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people of color are three times more likely to become infected with the coronavirus. The COVID Racial Data Tracker, an initiative that compiles data from state and local authorities, also indicates that Black people with the virus die at nearly 2.5 times the rate of white people, and Hispanic, American Indian, and Alaskan Native die at about 1.3 times the rate.
ISSN:1079-0969
2150-4113
2150-4113