COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)

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African Americans lead coronavirus deaths in Philadelphia

African Americans lead coronavirus deaths in Philadelphia
By Ryan BriggsNina FeldmanApril 8, 2020

Black Philadelphians lead fatalities linked to COVID-19 in the city, based on a sampling of deaths in which the race of the victims was known.

New data released by the city’s Department of Public Health shows that Black Philadelphians made up 39% of 78 deaths resulting from COVID-19. White Philadelphians comprised another 29%.

Racial identity was not known for 32% of all deaths, according to the city. But the figures mean African Americans made up the majority of victims in the roughly 50 deaths in which race was confirmed.

African Americans make up about 41% of the city’s population, according to 2017 census estimates.

Nationwide, COVID-19 is having a disproportionate impact on communities of color. A report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that during the month of March, 33% of people who became sick enough to require hospitalization from COVID-19 were African American, while Blacks make up about 13% of the U.S. population.

At Tuesday’s White House press briefing, President Donald Trump noted that African Americans are being affected “three to four times” more by the coronavirus, and said the administration is working to address the disparity.

“They’re getting hit very, very hard,” he said.

The city’s recent demographic data echoed these figures, indicating that Black Philadelphians continue to contract the virus at a rate more than double that of white residents in a sampling of cases where racial identity was established.

Most hospitals do not collect detailed demographic data, and the state has struggled to collect detailed racial information on COVID-19 patients, meaning that the race of some 77% of the 4,777 COVID-19 patients in Philadelphia is unknown.

However, in the cases where a patient’s race was documented, about 57% were Black. White residents, meanwhile, made up roughly 29% of cases where race was known.

In Philadelphia, some of the ZIP codes with the highest rates of infection also have the poorest health outcomes. For example, in the city’s 19141 ZIP code, which covers most of the Logan neighborhood, 152 coronavirus cases have been confirmed, putting it among the city’s highest ranking ZIP codes for positive tests. In that area, which is 84% Black, 43% of residents suffer from hypertension —10 points above the city’s average. Residents there suffer from diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), adult asthma, and heart disease all at higher rates than the city average.

At the White House briefing, Anthony Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, attributed the disproportionate number of deaths among Black Americans to comorbidities, or the presence of two chronic diseases simultaneously –– putting places like Logan at higher risk for serious cases of COVID-19.

“We’ve known, literally forever, that diseases like diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and asthma are disproportionately afflicting the minority populations, particularly the African Americans,” said Fauci.

The most commonly reported underlying conditions for COVID-19 hospitalizations in March were hypertension (49.7%), obesity (48.3%), chronic lung disease (34.6%), diabetes (28.3%), and cardiovascular disease (27.8%), according to the CDC.

“The things that get people into ICUs that require intubation and often lead to death, they are just those very comorbidities that are, unfortunately, disproportionately prevalent in the African American population,” Fauci said.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

There’s so much contradiction going on. Stay in the house they said. Get out and get some sun and exercise to keep your immune system up they said. Stay in the house and be inactive and develop diabetes so you get an underlying issue and die they said. Go outside and die they said

Theres no contradiction.

The central point is to stay the fukk away from everyone.

 

[Jx2]

I’ve been running frequently because I’ve been running for years but just the other day when I went to one public park out here and saw how many people were on the track, mostly NOT RUNNING, I really got pissed off.

For multiple reasons. One, I’m annoyed now that everyone has “free time”, they wanna all of the sudden become health gurus and shyt.

two, because it was clear that social distancing wasn’t being practiced AT ALL.

I ran by at least 20+ groups of 1 to 4 individuals. Based on that study, if anyone of us had it, we would have infected everyone on the track.

and these mfers was hogging the track, I had to run around all these clowns walking

needless to say, I only ran around the park once, then dipped.

Same breh. I have a road behind leads up a hill for about a two and a half miles to a circle and then tracks back down. I am literally watching cars drop off their spouses right behind my property at the beginning of the road. This otherwise quiet neighborhood is now flooded with Karens and Dillons that all of a sudden decided that they are now runners.


It's fukking infuriating and I know the trails down the road will be even worse, beaches the same.

I've been doing 45 minutes of weighted jump rope this week. shyt's giving me a WHOLE other type of workout. Calves, abs and biceps are on fire by the end. It's honestly a great alternative that I've always brushed off in favor of miles

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Lmao at the bold. I’ve had a bad arm injury since the end of February that has been tapering off for the last few days. My friend works for a gym that closed down for the pandemic but he has the key to get in. I was thinking to go lift since it’s just three of us in the whole gym. Now that I see this study though I think I’ll just jump rope/push up/etc. home.

I wouldn't even use equipment I inspected every inch of.

And which is why gyms are closed.

People don't treat equipment the same and they can't risk it.

 

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[Kings County]

What about grocery?

mask atleast
but to be safe mask and goggles and gloves
wipe down everything with disinfectant when u get home

 

[HE_Pennypacker]

Man the days of thinking this isn’t going to spread are far gone. We’re just hoping for an even spread of infections now over time.

This fear mongering shyt is like a drug to y'all

It really is. This shyt is serious, but so is people’s addiction to fear like you say. Jesus

 

[G-Zeus]

Crazy cuz it makes total sense...I guess staying inside is making some go crazy...Imma keep my kids at home from now on.

 

[Dre Space Age]

Damn.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Theres no contradiction.

The central point is to stay the fukk away from everyone.

Your thread title is a contradiction. “Don’t exercise near anyone. Stay home period”


What if I decide to exercise outside and not be near anyone?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Crazy cuz it makes total sense...I guess staying inside is making some go crazy...Imma keep my kids at home from now on.

I know people don't have yards, but its not worth it.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Your thread title is a contradiction. “Don’t exercise near anyone. Stay home period”


What if I decide to exercise outside and not be near anyone?

Thats functionally impossible in many places and people should just take the L if they can.

Running increases the MINIMUM distance by several factors of just walking, and you can never be sure of actual aerosols either, especially with all this pollen in the air particles can attach to.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Y'all forgot how many NBA players had this shyt? And basketball isn't nearly as much of a contact sport as others are

EDIT: Yes, I'm aware of the physicality, but I'm talking in relation to other sports with even more physical interaction. People were acting shocked at catching it in the NBA when the news broke. Thats what I'm referring to.

 

[G-Zeus]

Your thread title is a contradiction. “Don’t exercise near anyone. Stay home period”


What if I decide to exercise outside and not be near anyone?

Ur running somewhere were someone could have coughed up a covid cloud maybe 2-3 minutes before u...or spat on the ground mucus...

What my wife does is..she waits for white people to eat ....they all eat the same time where we live....and she takes her walk with the kids then....

But I think I will dead that t

 

[Standing on business]

Y'all forgot how many NBA players had this shyt? And basketball isn't nearly as much of a contact sport as others are

Basketball is a contact sport though