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Ohio and Cuyahoga County’s shocking failure to make sure minorities weren’t shortchanged in COVID-19 vaccine scramble Editorial Board, cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com
For the past pandemic year, statistics have told a grim story about COVID-19 1/4 u2032s disproportionate impact on communities of color for Blacks, in particular. Nationally, Blacks have died from COVID-19 at one and a half times the rate of whites. In Ohio, Blacks accounted for 18% of COVID-19 hospitalizations, when they only constitute 13% of the state’s population and those statistics are likely incomplete.
More recently, as the COVID-19 vaccine became available, experts, including former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, had warned of the need to make sure minorities weren’t overlooked. Adams especially flagged the need to promote the vaccine among Blacks made suspicious of a health care system that has often marginalized them.
How COVID-19 Is Impacting People of Color in Every State
By Charlotte LoBuono, Stacker News
On 12/19/20 at 8:30 AM EST
COVID-19 has disproportionately affected communities of color across the United States because of social inequalities and inequalities in the health care system that have existed for a long time.
Minorities are more likely than whites to lack health insurance and have less access to health care. And some people of color may be more distrustful of the health care system. People of color are also more likely than whites to have underlying health conditions such as hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, and obesity that predispose them to complications from COVID-19.