Last week I had a good chat with Tyler B. Evans the Top doctor for NYC covid19 emergency medicine. We were discussing his piece below and the conversation went global.
People of color are disproportionately vulnerable through out the world!
In 2002 I attended the Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) conference in Namibia Africa sponsored by UNICEF. Delegates from 60 countries came together for a week and we disseminated data and transmission rates of the HIV virus with a focus on OVC. At the time, HIV and the Aids Pandemic was ravaging through communities and countries which were largely in the developmening world, compounded by poverty, deprivation, compromised immune systems, and weak societal support all bundled together. This pattern seems to mirror the Corona virus with the virus causing the most casualties in less robust economic societies. Also with weak public health.
“Vulnerable populations across the world (including NYC) are at the highest risk of adverse health consequences based on the woefully inadequate resources provided for people living in poverty. Vulnerable in this context can be understood as the greatest concentration of disease with the least access to adequate health care and associated social services. These conditions are endemic and are simply flared with infectious disease outbreaks.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/502903-covid-19-inequalities-are-striking-and-uncompromising
… james ferrari #ferrarimedia #benjaminjames
