quote:Covid-19 care, including distribution of lifesaving therapies, was significantly delayed for Black and Hispanic patients due to inaccurate oxygen readings from devices that can work poorly in darker-skinned individuals, according to a study published Tuesday. The finding may be one reason much higher Covid-19 mortality rates have been seen in communities of color across the United States.
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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
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If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.
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If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.
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"A mob is a place where people go to get away from their conscience" Atticus Finch
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If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.
quote:Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
I have not heard of the sex disparity. they do not seem to have an explanation as of yet.
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If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.
quote:Originally posted by jon-nyc:
What’s funny is we heard lots of attempts to prioritize covid treatment by race, most of them shot down once revealed to the public.
Can you imagine if some poor apolitical public heath figure had made the case for prioritizing guys?
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"A mob is a place where people go to get away from their conscience" Atticus Finch