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    1. ABC News‏Verified account @ABC Apr 9
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      Leaders in medicine, public health and legal fields have decried the lack of wide reporting of race statistics as a fundamental injustice, one that has contributed to issues in understanding the full scope and depth of the disease's impact on minorities.https://abcn.ws/2JVqgJ6 

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      “There is no defensible reason for excluding racial demographic data. Our ability to fully understand and confront this pandemic requires and demands that we obtain racial data,” one advocate says.https://abcn.ws/2JVqgJ6 

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      While the country comes to terms with how to attack the coronavirus crisis head on, another widely known and unaddressed crisis is complicating the response: systematic racism within the health care system.https://abcn.ws/2JVqgJ6 

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      Dr. Anthony Fauci said at the White House this week that these health disparities have long been prevalent in the African American community and that this pandemic is “shining a bright light on how unacceptable that is.”https://abcn.ws/2JVqgJ6 

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    5. ABC News‏Verified account @ABC Apr 9
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      A range of studies over the past few decades have shown black people are less likely to have insurance and access to affordable medical testing.https://abcn.ws/2JVqgJ6 

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      Black Americans are also more likely to have underlying conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, high blood pressure and asthma and if a patient with those underlying conditions gets a severe illness they tend to fare worse.https://abcn.ws/2JVqgJ6 

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      Additionally, implicit bias within the health care system has long played a factor in the wellness of black Americans: “Systemic racism and bias in the healthcare system have resulted in chronically poor health outcomes for Black Americans.”https://abcn.ws/2JVqgJ6 

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      Studies have found black patients are sometimes treated differently than whites within the health care system, leading to things such as undertreatment of pain and racial differences in what treatment is offered for a heart attack.https://abcn.ws/2JVqgJ6 

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      Health equity advocates and community leaders are calling out the federal government, as well as state and local health departments, for their role in the coronavirus' disproportionately high impact in black communities.https://abcn.ws/2JVqgJ6 

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      “We need to know [race statistics] in order to allocate health healthcare resources more equitably. We call on HHS to mandate the collection or racial demographic data so that we can actually see the impact on our most vulnerable communities.”https://abcn.ws/2JVqgJ6 

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      New Orleans City Councilman Jay Banks says Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is teaming up with local leaders across the state for target messaging to the black community.https://abcn.ws/2JVqgJ6 

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          And some experts recommend black patients bring someone with them when seeking medical care to help be an advocate—and don’t take no for an answer.https://abcn.ws/2JVqgJ6 

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        1. RASPUTINtheREAL‏ @nthe_real Apr 9
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          They shoulda stayed home...

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        1. Loida‏ @Loida37993038 Apr 9
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          If we got gear why can't we talk???

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