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More Questions Than Answers About the Racial & Ethnic Skew in COVID-19 Deaths

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  • s. west
    Posted April 25, 2020 at 8:11 am

    The unintended consequences of corruption are right in front of us. THIS Mayor has closed hospitals and worked with developers to build .. build .. build. His donations from the real estate industry are outrageous. He has been in public office for over 20 years and now is preaching to us…He needs to look in the mirror when this is over and quickly get out of the way.

    • Jarrett Murphy
      Posted April 26, 2020 at 9:59 am

      Which hospitals has he closed?

      • Ryan Wiese
        Posted April 29, 2020 at 8:17 pm

        All of them essentially. Only allowing them to be available for treating a disease that you’re less likely to get hurt by than you are by simply driving your car to work and hasn’t even infected more people than the normal season flu? By the actions he’s taken, a large portion of doctors and nurses have been furloughed bc they were effectively shut-down by this dumb ass, race-bating piece of trash posing as the mayor of NYC.

        • Jarrett Murphy
          Posted April 30, 2020 at 10:17 am

          Your comment has literally no basis in fact. Prioritizing hospitals to deal with a particular disease is not equivalent to closing hospitals, and emergency cases of other sorts are still being treated. And in seven weeks this illness has killed 10 times as many people as the flu does in an entire year.

    • Barbara Mastorgi
      Posted May 1, 2020 at 11:36 am

      Thank you x3 (so far), Jarrett Murphy.

      • Ann
        Posted December 10, 2020 at 10:15 pm

        Reply to B.M.:

        Are you the same B.M. who worked with me at CHB back in the 1970’s and 1980’s?

  • nyc101
    Posted April 25, 2020 at 9:31 am

    Until we get a reliable racial breakdown of Covid-19 cases, the racial breakdown of deaths is an inaccurate measure.

    Deaths by borough [4-24-2020] –
    Boro || deaths || as % of boro cases || as % of NYC deaths
    Bronx || 2342 || 7.127% || 21.804%
    Brooklyn || 3190 || 8.237% || 29.699%
    Manhattan || 1390 || 7.616% || 12.941%
    Queens || 3304 || 7.292% || 30.761%
    SI || 515 || 4.717% || 4.795%
    NYC || 10741 || 7.353% || 100.000%

    • Jarrett Murphy
      Posted April 26, 2020 at 9:59 am

      No it’s not. If people are dying of a disease at a disproportionate rate, it doesn’t really matter whether there is a similar skew in overall cases. What are the implications if those numbers are different? Under one scenario, Blacks and Latinos are getting the case less often than Whites but dying of it more–which could indicate some issues in treatment, but doesn’t change the story of disparity. In the other scenario, Blacks and Latinos get it more often and die from it more often, which is still a problem.

      • Ryan
        Posted April 29, 2020 at 8:20 pm

        Really? Is there no low that these people won’t stoop to when it comes to playing the race card no matter how outrageous and ridiculous the reason behind doing so? This is the crap that’s slowly destroying the moral fiber of what was once the greatest nation in human history (that’s right, we longer get to say that when half the citizens think this idiotically).

        • Jarrett Murphy
          Posted April 30, 2020 at 10:14 am

          Acknowledging statistical reality is not playing the race card. And when would you say the moral fiber of our nation was at its highest point?

          • John Anderson
            Posted January 13, 2021 at 11:53 am

            Except when the statistical reality is such a huge twist of the truth you need to seek shelter in a basement.

            Obamacare saved latinos but not black people because of racism?????

            You are a huge part of the problem. Stop blaming skin color for everything in life.

  • Jarrett Murphy
    Posted January 13, 2021 at 12:40 pm

    The latest numbers:

    Cases per 100,000
    Asian 2279.88
    White 3141.19
    Black 3276.73
    Latino 4363.31

    Hospitalizations per 100,000
    Asian 409.96
    White 459.25
    Black 875.25
    Latino 938.32

    Deaths per 100,000
    Asian 120.68
    White 139.39
    Black 258.09
    Latino 278.87

    The data clearly indicates a racial skew.

    I don’t recall mentioning Obamacare, or blaming skin color for everything in life. We are just reporting the reality of a racial skew in COVID-19 deaths.

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