Black Medicare Patients With COVID-19 Nearly 4 Times As Likely To End Up In Hospital
An analysis of claims data shows stark racial disparities among Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with COVID-19.
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To Combat Disparities, Black Churches In Dallas Offer Coronavirus Testing
African Americans are hard hit by COVID-19, but in some Texas cities, it's not easy to get a test in minority neighborhoods. An effort by local churches aims to fix this.
What Do Coronavirus Racial Disparities Look Like State By State?
NPR's analysis shows just how stark the impact has been on African-Americans and Latinos. Experts say the pandemic will go on — for everyone — unless we direct resources where they're most needed.
Who's Hit Hardest By COVID-19? Why Obesity, Stress And Race All Matter
Data shows people with certain chronic conditions are more likely to get severe COVID-19 symptoms. Why are they hit harder and what explains the disease's disproportionate affect on African Americans?
The Coronavirus Doesn't Discriminate, But U.S. Health Care Showing Familiar Biases
Most available coronavirus data doesn't include ethnic or racial demographics, but public health experts say they fear the response to the pandemic will lead to predictable health care disparities.
Why Racial Gaps In Maternal Mortality Persist
Black and Native American women die of pregnancy-related causes at a higher rate than white women. Researchers say the gaps are driven by unequal access to health care and the experience of racism.
Addiction Kills More Blacks, But Treatment Is Prescribed Mostly To Whites
A study looked at who gets prescriptions for buprenorphine, and found that white patients are almost 35 times as likely to get the lifesaving addiction treatment than African Americans.
Racial Disparities In Cancer Incidence And Survival Rates Are Narrowing
African-Americans still have the highest death rate and the lowest survival rate of any U.S. racial or ethnic group for most cancers. But the "cancer gap" between blacks and whites is shrinking.
Racist Med School Yearbook Photos? Medicine's Racism Problems Go Even Deeper
The media attention around a racist photo on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page sheds light on the larger problem of how racism affects medical care for African-Americans.
Distrust Of Health Care System May Keep Black Men Away From Prostate Cancer Research
Black men are hit hardest by prostate cancer, but they are underrepresented in research. Researchers held focus groups in three states to understand why.