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Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black-White wealth gap was pronounced, with many studies discussing its magnitude. [40] Data from the Center for American Progress demonstrates that Black Americans, with less in way of savings, were harder hit economically by the pandemic-associated recession.
The overrepresentation of African-American people among confirmed COVID-19 cases and the number of deaths underscores the fact that the coronavirus pandemic is amplifying and exacerbating existing social inequalities tied to race, class, and access to the health care system according to many statistical studies.
Viable inbred offspring are also likely to be inflicted with physical deformities and genetically inherited diseases. [69] Studies have confirmed an increase in several genetic disorders due to inbreeding such as blindness, hearing loss, neonatal diabetes, limb malformations, disorders of sex development, schizophrenia and several others.
On 14 February 2020, bullies physically attacked an Asian American boy, 16, in San Fernando Valley and accused him of having the coronavirus only because he is Asian American. [400] Robin Toma of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission stated, "Many may be quick to assume that just because someone is Asian or from China that somehow ...
Branche and colleagues at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York were running a clinical trial for a vaccine against the coronavirus, which kills Black people at three times the ...
The first, a 2006 study in the American Journal of Epidemiology, found that, while white women and white men sleep over six hours a night on average, Black women sleep just 5.9 hours a night and ...
Instead, African American girls and women, teenagers have higher fertility rates and healthy pregnancies. The data indicated a widening disparity in black-white infant mortality as maternal ages increase. Subsequently, Geronimus proposed the "weathering hypothesis", which she initially conceived as a potential explanation for the patterns of ...
A CDC report revealed that COVID-19 incidence rates were 3.5 times higher for American Indians/Alaska Natives compared to white Americans during the first 7 months of the pandemic. [111] Intergenerational trauma and structural racism along with the lack of recognition by leadership and governance result in a constantly building allostatic load ...