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WINNIPEG As the COVID-19 pandemic slows in Manitoba, provincial medical leaders are already looking at data that shows systemic issues put people who aren’t white at a higher risk of hospitalization. The data also shows that during the third wave of the pandemic, the proportion of cases of people identifying as white has gone down, while cases among BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) communities have increased. The gap in cases between all BIPOC communities combined and cases who identified as white has grown since December, Dr. Marcia Anderson said on Monday. Dr. Anderson, the Pandemic Response Coordination Team’s medical lead, presented the province’s third wave Race, Ethnicity, Indigenous (REI) Analysis at Monday’s COVID-19 news conference.
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Dr. Marcia Anderson noted it as one of her key findings as she presented new data on diverse BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) communities in the province.
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The reason, Anderson explained during a press conference on Monday, was due to the lack of consideration for race and ethnicity, aside from First Nations, from public health.
“What that meant was we were assuming that a 60-year-old African or South Asian person had the same risk as a 60-year-old white person,” Anderson said. “However, underlying population-level contextual factors, including lower income levels, higher rates of overcrowded, inadequate housing, different levels of occupational risk, actually likely meant that the 60-year-old person from a South Asian or African community was actually at much high
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