Global Pandemic Event 201

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In response to @"BIAD" above...

When I see stories like this I just want to...
well, let's just say I get so angry inside I can find no words to describe it! 

The quote "...The gang then called him racist, and started abusing him..." tells you a lot about who was doing the coughing!


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On a similar note, USA Today continue the MSM goal of dividing the public...

Health issues for blacks, Latinos and Native Americans may cause coronavirus to ravage communities.

'Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans have many underlying health conditions, including asthma and heart disease,
that could make them more vulnerable to complications from the coronavirus, leaving advocates, lawmakers and public
health experts worried these long marginalized communities won't get equal access to tests and treatment as the
outbreak spreads.

“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.’’

As the coronavirus continues to spread across the country, advocates and civil rights groups are pushing to get local
and federal lawmakers to focus attention on communities of color and steer resources to places like reservations and
community health centers that serve them.

Some are calling for federal officials to track the number of people of color who have died from coronavirus and to set
up a commission to study how coronavirus is spreading in those communities. There were more than 140,000 confirmed
cases of coronavirus in the U.S. by Monday morning and more than 2,500 deaths.
Officials have so far not released information on race and coronavirus cases. 

“You need to do this with intention,'' said Vasan, who is also president & CEO of the mental health charity Fountain House
based in New York City. "You need to map out which communities are already at the margins of care and resources and
testing and already have preconditions, disproportionate health conditions, and then say, ‘All right, how do we ensure that
we're going there?’"

Long history of health disparities
Long before the pandemic, people of color have experienced racial and ethnic health disparities, including a lack of access
to quality care and health insurance, public health  experts said. Federal agencies, as well as nonprofit health organizations,
have studied the issue and set up programs to address it. 

The coronavirus outbreak is a stark reminder of those gaps, advocates said.
“It further shines a light on the long standing inequities that exist in society,’’ said J. Nadine Gracia, executive vice president
and CEO at Trust For America’s Health, a public health policy group in Washington, D.C.

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. 
“We’re very concerned because, as we like to say, when the majority gets a cold, we get the flu or we get pneumonia,’’ said
Kelly, a Democrat from Illinois.

While the Affordable Care Act helped many people of color get health coverage, many still don’t have insurance, or access to
providers and quality care, experts said. According to the Census, 8.5 percent of whites were uninsured in 2017, compared
to 10.6 percent of blacks, 7.3 percent for Asians and 16.1 percent for Hispanics.

Dr. Melissa Clarke, former assistant dean in the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., said the nation’s
history of health disparities and the stressors faced by people of color, including racism and poverty, are factors in those
communities disproportionately having the “very diseases that COVID19 presents a problem for.”

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...'

USA Today: (More in the link)

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In the same dying media, the truth is once more diluted...

CBS mourns longtime journalist Maria Mercader, who died at 54 from coronavirus.

'CBS News is mourning Maria Mercader, a longtime journalist with the news outlet who died in a New York
hospital at 54 after battling coronavirus. In a news release shared Sunday afternoon, CBS remembered
Mercader as a "network veteran who covered breaking news for nearly three decades and, most recently,
helped shape strategy for the network's correspondents and reporters."

Mercader battled cancer and "related illnesses" for more than 20 years and had been on medical leave
"for an unrelated matter" since the end of February, CBS added. 


Maria Mercader.

She began working with the network's news division as part of the page program in 1987, the year she graduated
from College of New Rochelle, and went on to produce major stories for CBS News' foreign and national desks...'

SOURCE:

She was already ill and on leave.