The interview was a good read right up until the end, where it went political. I don't know about the UK, but the US doesn't have any systemic inequality in availability of healthcare. Anyone can walk into a clinic or hospital and get the care they need. And no, not having money to pay for healthcare is not a racial issue. It's an economic issue.
In the UK healthcare is free* but non-white people still tend to get worse outcomes and in the case of COVID-19 it appears that some genetic factor makes it worse for them. Even after that became apparent there wasn't much effort made to do anything about it, e.g. to shield black/Asian healthcare staff.
* It's free but the Home Office has been discriminating against non-white people for a decade, taking away their right to healthcare illegally and unfairly.
In the UK healthcare is free* but non-white people still tend to get worse outcomes
I'm not sure that's true. I think that the issue is poverty and black families tend to be poorer (which is at least partly due to systemic racism) but even with COVID I don't think the research suggests that the issue is directly related to skin colour or other genetic characteristics commonly possessed by people with black skin. Poor white people have very similar outcomes, including with COVID. However, there is a lot of research on this and not a lot of clarity (which in itself is suggestive of there bei
A lot of it is due to poverty, which itself is linked to race in the UK, but also simply because medical research tends to target affluent white people because they are the biggest market. Issues that mostly affect non-white people get less attention and money thrown at them. Medical staff tend to be less familiar with them.
I was speaking generally as we don't know what the exact factors at play here are. There does appear to be something that makes COVID-19 worse for certain genetics but AFAIK nobody knows what it is.
Someone mentioned high blood pressure and diabetes. Are these the issues that don't affect white people?
Uncontrolled hypertension (high blood pressure) disproportionately affects poor people because rich people are more likely to see a physician regularly and get put on metoprolol and a reducing diet. Because of bigoted state laws prior to the mid-1960s, poor people in the United States are disproportionately nonwhite.
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Systemic inequality? (Score:-1, Redundant)
The interview was a good read right up until the end, where it went political. I don't know about the UK, but the US doesn't have any systemic inequality in availability of healthcare. Anyone can walk into a clinic or hospital and get the care they need. And no, not having money to pay for healthcare is not a racial issue. It's an economic issue.
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In the UK healthcare is free* but non-white people still tend to get worse outcomes and in the case of COVID-19 it appears that some genetic factor makes it worse for them. Even after that became apparent there wasn't much effort made to do anything about it, e.g. to shield black/Asian healthcare staff.
* It's free but the Home Office has been discriminating against non-white people for a decade, taking away their right to healthcare illegally and unfairly.
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In the UK healthcare is free* but non-white people still tend to get worse outcomes
I'm not sure that's true. I think that the issue is poverty and black families tend to be poorer (which is at least partly due to systemic racism) but even with COVID I don't think the research suggests that the issue is directly related to skin colour or other genetic characteristics commonly possessed by people with black skin. Poor white people have very similar outcomes, including with COVID. However, there is a lot of research on this and not a lot of clarity (which in itself is suggestive of there bei
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A lot of it is due to poverty, which itself is linked to race in the UK, but also simply because medical research tends to target affluent white people because they are the biggest market. Issues that mostly affect non-white people get less attention and money thrown at them. Medical staff tend to be less familiar with them.
Re:Systemic inequality? (Score:2)
Issues that mostly affect non-white people
Someone mentioned high blood pressure and diabetes. Are these the issues that don't affect white people? Looking around myself I seriously doubt that.
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I was speaking generally as we don't know what the exact factors at play here are. There does appear to be something that makes COVID-19 worse for certain genetics but AFAIK nobody knows what it is.
Nonwhite ergo poor ergo sick (Score:2)
Someone mentioned high blood pressure and diabetes. Are these the issues that don't affect white people?
Uncontrolled hypertension (high blood pressure) disproportionately affects poor people because rich people are more likely to see a physician regularly and get put on metoprolol and a reducing diet. Because of bigoted state laws prior to the mid-1960s, poor people in the United States are disproportionately nonwhite.