Amid coronavirus pandemic, black mistrust of medicine looms
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“We are right to be paranoid and to ask tough questions,” said U.S. Rep.
Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts who joined other congressional leaders
in asking the government to collect and release information about the
race and ethnicity of people who are tested or treated for the virus
that causes COVID-19"
"NAACP President Derrick Johnson, who hosted a coronavirus tele-town
hall with U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams last month, said black and
brown communities need reliable information about the crisis.
“Now that this has been deemed a pandemic, I am most concerned with
inequities in who’s provided tests, who’s provided treatment and how
those tests and the treatments are administered, in a way that is open,
transparent, and equitable,” Johnson said"
"Figures released by Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services
show 40% of those who have died from COVID-19 are black in a state where
African-Americans are just 14% of the population"
"According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, black
adults are 60% more likely than non-Hispanic white adults to be
diagnosed with diabetes, 40% more likely to have high blood pressure and
are less likely to have those conditions under control. Additionally, in
2015, black women were 20% more likely to have asthma than non-Hispanic
whites"