For people of African descent, especially in the United States, the issue of health disparities is well-known, thoroughly documented and oft quoted in medical journals, media reports and issue briefs.
It is beyond dispute that there are precious few disorders or diseases that don’t impact us to any degree worse, and often far worse than the general population, and for countless reasons. The list of these is, in a word, ominous.
As for just some of the most glaring examples, Black Americans were devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
We are both contracting the virus, and dying from it at double the rate to be expected as proportionate to the national population.
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