People of color have many underlying health conditions that could make them vulnerable to health risks from coronavirus, experts said.
“The virus is an equal opportunity crisis … but the impact and the burden of it is not going to be shared equally,’’ said Dr. Ashwin Vasan, a public health expert and assistant professor at Columbia University in New York City. “Like most things in society, it's going to be regressive. It's going to be felt disproportionately by the poor, the vulnerable, the marginalized and obviously that falls down in this country on communities of color.
U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, said communities of color tend to be hardest hit by health crises because they tend to have less wealth than whites and less access to health care. Those include high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, lung diseases, including asthma and chronic bronchitis, and autoimmune diseases like lupus – all disproportionately found in blacks, Latinos and Native Americans.
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