Racial Profiling ? Why 'Persons of Color' are the Majority of Coronavirus Cases in many Places.

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hollydolly said:
This a report from way back in 2005 , but may still be relevant today...

It seems that overall Black American people's lungs are generally weaker than other nations ( or at least white people according to this article) ...so there may be something in the OP post in that Black people are less likely to survive Covid-19 attack or more likely to contract it than any other nation...

Black Americans and Lung Disease

A 2005 report from the American Lung Association shows that black Americans suffer far more lung disease than white Americans do.


Some of the findings:


  • Black Americans have more asthma than any racial or ethnic group in America. And blacks are 3 times more likely to die of asthma than whites.
  • Black Americans are 3 times more likely to suffer sarcoidosis than white Americans. The lung-scarring disease is 16 times more deadly for blacks than for whites.
  • Black American children are 3 times as likely as white American children to have sleep apnea.
  • Black American babies die of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) 2.5 times as often as white American babies.
  • Black American men are 50% more likely to get lung cancer than white American men.
  • Black Americans are half as likely to get flu and pneumonia vaccinations as white Americans.
https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-...es/why-7-deadly-diseases-strike-blacks-most#2
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Thank you for this post.
 
I agree with win231. The statistics seem cherrypicked as to racial elements. There may be a predisposition for getting the virus, but it's way too early to determine that. And again, it may just be that certain people were exposed to the virus more than others. With so little real factual data available and the hysteria over the virus, I think it's irresponsible to start intimating that certain groups are more infected, and thus more likely to spread the virus.
 
katlupe said:
https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/136/4/1126/4664238
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@katlupe your link about vitamin D is very interesting. Dark skin is naturally meant to protect people from too much sun in hot climates such as Africa and India.

Drifting just a little, I found it interesting that black skinned people don't suffer more fractures due to inadequate vitamin D as light skinned people do because they found there is something in their digestive system that protects their bones.

How amazing our human bodies are!
 
RadishRose said:
@katlupe your link about vitamin D is very interesting. Dark skin is naturally meant to protect people from too much sun in hot climates such as Africa and India.

Drifting just a little, I found it interesting that black skinned people don't suffer more fractures due to inadequate vitamin D as light skinned people do because they found there is something in their digestive system that protects their bones.

How amazing our human bodies are!
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Read within the past year at some point that standard vitamin D level parameters don't reflect the ways in which different races utilize Vit D. A black person and a white person may have the same lab value, but the black person's body is utilizing it better. Think it might have been receptor site related...
 
RadishRose said:
@hollydolly , even tho' dated, the article you posted rang familiar with me.

I recall reading somewhere a long time ago, that Africans sprinted better in a running race than Caucasians, but could not endure in distance running due to smaller lungs, not weaker, but smaller.

If this is true, medical science must devise a workable treatment for them.
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The leading marathon runners - and world record holders - are from Kenya. Just sayin'.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
The explanation I saw from Dr. Fauci is that Black Americans have a higher incidence of diabetes, hypertension and less access to health care. I think at this point citing statistics in this area is premature.
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Think he's right about diabetes and hypertension based on working in dialysis in Memphis and Mississippi for nine years. And the obesity that exacerbates those conditions which is also a factor in Covid-19 severity.

As far as access to health care ...that's true but there's also a propensity in the black culture here to avoid seeking it even when it's available. Not sure why that is. But it's not nearly so bad in the black culture as it in the Choctaw population in MS. That subgroup has benefits through the Indian Health Service (including free prescription coverage) that a good many absolutely will not utilize. One of my best friends did contract work on the reservation and said that even with clinics calling in meds to the pharmacy, the majority of patients would not go pick them up even though there was no charge. It wasn't because of use of alternative cultural medicine practice; many were for some reason resistant to caring for health conditions in any manner.
 
AnnieA said:
Read within the past year at some point that standard vitamin D level parameters don't reflect the ways in which different races utilize Vit D. A black person and a white person may have the same lab value, but the black person's body is utilizing it better. Think it might have been receptor site related...
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from that link-

Vitamin D insufficiency is more prevalent among African Americans (blacks) than other Americans and, in North America, most young, healthy blacks do not achieve optimal 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations at any time of year. This is primarily due to the fact that pigmentation reduces vitamin D production in the skin. Also, from about puberty and onward, median vitamin D intakes of American blacks are below recommended intakes in every age group, with or without the inclusion of vitamin D from supplements.

Despite their low 25(OH)D levels, blacks have lower rates of osteoporotic fractures. This may result in part from bone-protective adaptations that include an intestinal resistance to the actions of 1,25(OH)2D and a skeletal resistance to the actions of parathyroid hormone (PTH).

However, these mechanisms may not fully mitigate the harmful skeletal effects of low 25(OH)D and elevated PTH in blacks, at least among older individuals.

Furthermore, it is becoming increasingly apparent that vitamin D protects against other chronic conditions, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and some cancers, all of which are as prevalent or more prevalent among blacks than whites.

Clinicians and educators should be encouraged to promote improved vitamin D status among blacks (and others) because of the low risk and low cost of vitamin D supplementation and its potentially broad health benefits.

Oh well, go figure...
 
All these wild speculations about why certain people, physical types, etc. are more likely to get it, are way too premature, and almost certain to be wrong. They are rumors and speculation, not science. As I said in the discussion about blood types and covid-19, the fact that two things coexist does not prove that one causes the other. Why not leave the medical theories to the professionals?
 
Profiling? Really? A virus profiles different people? Look up the meaning.

I keep telling myself not to lose hope in the human race, but sometimes it is hard, really hard.
 

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