COVID-19 is Out of Proportion in African Americans. This Will Come as No Surprise…
COVID-19 is Out of Proportion in African Americans. This Will Come as No Surprise…
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Fouad, M. N., Ruffin, J., & Vickers, S. M. (2020). COVID-19 is Out of Proportion in African Americans. This Will Come as No Surprise…. The American journal of medicine, S0002-9343(20)30411-3. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.04.008
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As the COVID-19 crisis unfolds, it is clear that the disease is affecting African American populations disproportionately. For example, in our home state of Alabama, African Americans comprise 37.5% of laboratory-confirmed cases and 47.4% of deaths, despite only being 26.8% of the population, according to publicly available statistics on April 21, 2020. In Louisiana, 56.25% of COVID-related deaths were among Blacks, even though only 32.7% of the population is black. In Michigan, while 14.1% of the population is black, 33% of COVID-19 cases are among Blacks and African Americans, as are 40% of the deaths. However, none of this should come as a surprise.