Archive | Race and Health

Doctors warn race denialism will diminish test accuracy.

There are good reasons not to trust American institutions.

An idea whose time has come.

The racial death gap widens.

The vaccination rate for blacks is 15 percent lower than for whites.

What happened to white privilege?

Over 200 American localities have passed similar resolutions.

Blacks' complaints may shut down a medical school.

"I used the allegations of racism as a front to get away with it."

Black researchers demand even more funding.

What I have seen after 12,000 patients.

"We have to bring that same unrelenting focus to another more pernicious public health threat: racism."

Whites have a drive to "hate and terrorize."

Doctor: "I'm going to treat the person of color instead because whatever happened to the white guy, he probably deserves it."

Miscegenation has consequences.

Is this white privilege?

Black lawmaker: "Racism has been a public health crisis since the founding of this country."

If it has its way, people will die.

Who now wants Medicare for all.

He says society should never forget that COVID-19 disproportionately killed non-whites.

Blacks are nearly six times more likely than whites to have an STD.

Medical journals want to prohibit discussion of race as a biological fact.

Whites have received the COVID-19 vaccine at 1.6 times the rate of blacks.

But many Asian seniors still won't leave their homes for fear of black violence.

Black doctors claim racism is "built into the very algorithms that we use."

Speakers ponder the future of whites.

The bill calls for a 70 percent reduction in racial disparities.

Eighty-five percent of black smokers prefer menthols.

Ethnic communities fear the ban will "prompt racism and stigma."

Book of prayers is a best-seller.

Only nine percent of gypsies want to be vaccinated.

Will we need to get a vaccine?

“What we need . . . is a proactively antiracist agenda for medicine.”

"The more I think about it, the more my stomach turns."

Non-white privilege.

A bribe to Mexico to restrain illegal immigration?

At a rate of 11,000 a month.

From massive resistance to massive debasement.

"We do not live the life of white privilege."

Illegal-alien farmworker: "It’s about time we got the opportunity to be first at something."

“No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in healthcare?”

Academics blame contemporary "racism" instead.

Every ten percent increase in Polynesian ancestry means an 11 percent increase in odds of heart failure.

Africa could give us the next pandemic.

Elderly Virginian: “The governor has decided who gets the vaccine based on race/ethnicity."

Researchers recommend Hispanic patients get tested for the mutations.

Ancestry matters.

He didn't allow black physicians to join the medical association.

So we must beg them to take it.

"Our study simply gives yet another example of how racism gets into people's bodies and makes them sick."

The administration plans to release over 25,000 migrants into Texas and California.

"Racism" is the only acceptable explanation.

"At the four star Crowne Plaza Hotel . . . 20-year-old Abdul from the Sudan says he is pleased with his new life here in Britain."

Blacks are 24 percent the city's population but only 11 percent of those vaccinated.

And “Courtside Karen” gets the boot.

"We don’t want in the beginning that most of the people who are getting (the vaccine) are . . . middle-class white people."

"African-Americans are 20% more likely to develop colorectal cancer and 40% more likely to die from it."

"[M]en of African ancestry inherit twice the prostate cancer risk on average as men of European ancestry."

It could be the first case in the world of an immigrant winning the right to settle on environmental grounds.

"It seems that much of the burden of job losses during the pandemic has fallen on non-UK workers."

Health experts blame "structural racism" for blacks' unwillingness to get vaccinated.

Public health executive: “That’s what structural racism looks like."

This isn't justice; it's revenge.

It is illegal for medical authorities to share information with ICE.

"This is fueled by systemic racism."

American Indian activists demand vaccine prioritization.

"We can live, breathe and eat exactly the way we do without having to adapt to white supremacy."

Study confirms another racial difference.

Multiracialism makes normal government almost impossible.

The British study finds "Asians" are the least likely to want the vaccine.

Twenty-five states prioritize blacks and Hispanics over whites.

Medical experts say essential workers should go first because they are disproportionately non-white.

"Our work shows that clinical trials need to carefully consider ancestry in their study designs . . . ."

"The vaccine that you’re going to be taking was developed by an African American woman."

Even though there are far fewer white students than black students in the system.