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Yes, the vast majority of residential school deaths were due to endemic diseases. The primary accusation regarding deaths is that the residential schools had a
by pseudo0 4y ago
Yes, the vast majority of residential school deaths were due to endemic diseases. The primary accusation regarding deaths is that the residential schools had a higher death rate than comparable populations, and the state should have provided more resources and better medical care.
- cm2187 4y agoIt’s hard to tell without knowing what disease we are talking about. If it was the spanish flu there isn’t much medicine could do then.
- munk-a 4y agoThe deaths at residential schools were higher than similar institutions - I don't understand what's hard to comprehend here when we're comparing a basket of 8 apples to a basket of 10 apples - 10 apples is more apples.
- defen 4y agoI'm not an epidemiologist, so file this under "baseless speculation by an armchair non-expert", but influenza is an Old World disease - is it possible that First Nations people are more vulnerable to it? Ten seconds of Googling provided this link https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22032099/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22032099/
- munk-a 4y agoIn this case I'd strongly suggest following up with an actual epidemiologist (which I also am not) but my assumption (also pretty baseless) is that when doing comparative population studies they do try and account for that affect.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoThere's a lot of literature trying to disentangle genetic and cultural background in epidemiology, especially with regard to indigenous peoples in the Americas. However, the general idea that the immune systems of indigenous Americans are somehow uniquely susceptible to disease was a popular idea in the 80s that is now regarded as unsupported by evidence. Most of the prominent advocates (like black) have walked back on it.
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