Whites now more likely to die from covid than Blacks: Why the pandemic shifted

[douglas9]

SOMERVILLE, Tenn. — Skill Wilson had amassed more than three decades of knowledge as a paramedic, first in Memphis and then in Fayette County. Two places that felt like night and day.

With only five ambulances in the county and the nearest hospital as much as 45 minutes away, Skill relished the clinical know-how necessary to work in a rural setting. Doing things like sedating patients to insert tubes into their airways.

But when it came to covid-19, despite more than 1 million deaths nationwide, Skill and his family felt their small town on the central-eastern side of Fayette County, with its fields of grazing cattle and rows of cotton and fewer than 200 covid deaths since the start of the pandemic, was a cocoon against the raging health emergency



https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/10/19/covid-deaths-us-race/

[cilla4progress]

1. Maybe

not a bad thing...

I say, as an old white woman..

[louis-t]

2. Most of the black people in my neighborhood still wear masks inside of stores.

Very few white people do. I know a LOT of white people getting COVID around here. I'll wager that has something to do with it.

[Rebl2]

3. I have

noticed this too. I was at the drug store the other day to get a flu shot. There were a couple of black people there and they had masks on. There were several white people there and don’t think any of them had a mask on except my husband and me. None of the people in the pharmacy had masks on either.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Worth the read.

I have basically been saying Republicans are more likely to be dying from it than others. I wasn't sure though about blacks but glad they took it more seriously.

Just had a retiree meeting yesterday and the only ones wearing a face mask were a couple of blacks although the rest didn't. No whites wore them including me. I have received the latest booster and I maintain my distance from other people when I need to be in public. I stopped wearing a mask in early October. And I live alone.