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Here's a good article that discusses why Black Americans have higher mortality rates: "systemic racism is as much a part of biology as genomes are: The conditi
by greenbush 6y ago
Here's a good article that discusses why Black Americans have higher mortality rates:
"systemic racism is as much a part of biology as genomes are: The conditions in which we develop—including limited access to healthy food, exposure to toxic pollutants, the threat of police violence or the injurious stress of racial discrimination—influence the likelihood that any one of us will suffer from high blood pressure, diabetes or serious complications from COVID-19"
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/racism-not-genetics-explains-why-black-americans-are-dying-of-covid-19/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/racism-not-genet...