Covid is killing more white Americans than black in a statistical reversal that defies what experts previously attributed to systemic racism built into America's healthcare system.
According to the Daily Mail, "the shift has surprised experts" as Covid has been steadily more serious in white communities in 2022 than black.
Black Americans were three times more likely than white Americans to die from Covid at the start of the pandemic. At the time, many in establishment media attributed the phenomenon to a "disparity between the healthcare access available to the different groups" and to comorbidities.
As 2020 progressed, white people started dying in increased numbers while black people were dying at the same rate, which somewhat closed the gap. Then white deaths became statistically greater in mid-October of 2021 as the Delta variant became prominent.
Then in the winter of 2021-2022 the Omicron variant caused the ratio to flip again and more black deaths resulted in those months.
By June of 2022, the ratio flipped yet again and has held steady with Covid killing more white Americans.
The Washington Post has claimed that in black communities the virus spread and death rates were from, as the Daily Mail summarized, "centuries of racial and economic inequalities deeply ingrained in the United States long before the pandemic began." Comorbidities such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension which appear statistically in black Americans at a younger age than white was the result of internalized "stress."
The same analysis from the Post said that whites are dying because of irresponsibility and not getting the vaccine.
The analysis from the Washington Post argues that black communities were victims of the virus due to systemic oppression and white communities, especially Republicans, were irresponsible by not getting vaccinated.
A professor of social epidemiology at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Nancy Krieger, said healthcare workers have to deal with "the cumulative impact of injustice" on minority groups and others who are "ideologically opposed to the vaccine."
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