{"id":2221059,"date":"2024-04-15T04:36:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T08:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-who-insisted-covid-health-care-was-racist-test-positive-for-confirmation-bias\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T04:39:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T08:39:58","slug":"leftists-who-insisted-covid-health-care-was-racist-test-positive-for-confirmation-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-who-insisted-covid-health-care-was-racist-test-positive-for-confirmation-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressives advocating that Covid healthcare was discriminatory now found positive for confirmation bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftists-who-insisted-covid-health-care-was-racist-test-positive-for-confirmation-bias%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2221059&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Resolution 1062, \u2064declaring racism a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-governor-encourages-people-to-call-police-on-neighbors-violating-covid-orders\/\" title=\"Oregon Governor Encourages People To Call Police On Neighbors Violating COVID Orders\">public health crisis<\/a>,\u200c aims to shed light on disparities in healthcare for\u2064 communities of\u200b color \u2062during the COVID-19 pandemic. While initial assumptions suggested systemic racism played a significant role in\u200d mortality rates, data reveals factors like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-travel-lid-for-wednesday-an-hour-after-bobulinski-interview-airs\/\" title=\"Biden Calls Travel Lid for Wednesday an Hour After Bobulinski Interview Airs\">pre-existing conditions<\/a> and work environments contributed more than racism \u200dto the outcomes. \u200dHouse Resolution 1062, which classifies \u200bracism as a public health crisis, seeks to address healthcare discrepancies for communities \u200cof color amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Contrary to\u2063 early beliefs linking systemic racism to higher mortality rates, data indicates that pre-existing conditions and workplace environments have a more substantial impact\u200c on outcomes than racism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>In mid-March, House Resolution 1062 \u2014 \u201cDeclar[ing] racism a public health crisis\u201d \u2014 was filed by two congressmen from Connecticut. \u201cThis resolution aims to highlight the detrimental effects communities of color face when seeking treatment,\u201d they said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/hayes.house.gov\/2024\/3\/hayes-moves-to-declare-racism-a-public-health-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.gov\/118\/bills\/hres1062\/BILLS-118hres1062ih.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H. RES. 1062<\/a> suggests that \u201cduring the COVID\u201319 pandemic, Black, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Native American communities experienced disproportionately high rates of COVID\u201319 infection, hospitalization, and mortality compared to the White population of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-86937986\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0e76e7263e31843e923e7966f594bfd5 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0e76e7263e31843e923e7966f594bfd5\"><\/div>\n<p>This popular assumption overtook the medical establishment and the media soon after Covid-19 descended on America early in the election year of 2020. Early in the pandemic, blacks and Hispanics were dying at higher rates than whites, and this was viewed as irrefutable evidence of systemic racism in health care.<\/p>\n<p>The media went all-in on this. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/08\/nyregion\/coronavirus-race-deaths.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/black-hispanic-new-yorkers-account-for-disproportionate-number-of-coronavirus-deaths-11586359447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-04-25\/coronavirus-takes-a-larger-toll-on-younger-african-americans-and-latinos-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> ran stories on it in April 2020, as did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/09\/23\/914427907\/as-pandemic-deaths-add-up-racial-disparities-persist-and-in-some-cases-worsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NPR<\/a> in September 2020 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2020\/health\/covid-race-mortality-rate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a> in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But the data shows, four years later, that this assumption was a rush to judgment \u2014 nonwhite people actually died in <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#demographics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">numbers<\/a> that were comparable to their portion of the population. CDC data for <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#demographics\">1,175,876 Covid deaths<\/a> from January 2020 through February 2024 show that blacks comprised 13.6 percent of all Covid deaths, in line with their 13.6 percent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/US\/PST045223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">population<\/a>; Hispanics were almost 15 percent of mortalities, less than their 19.1 percent of the population; Asians accounted for 3.14 percent of all Covid casualties, half their 6 percent portion of the nation; and Non-Hispanic whites made up 67 percent of all Covid deaths \u2014 even more than their 58.9 percent share of the population.<\/p>\n<p>Whites skew older than blacks and Hispanics, and this is why whites made up two-thirds of Covid deaths. People over age 50 comprised more than 93.5 percent of Covid mortalities, and those over 65 posed 76 percent of deaths, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.cdc.gov\/NCHS\/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex-and-Age\/9bhg-hcku\/data_preview\">CDC data<\/a> shows. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-717ce00887623dbf4555a6d165532552 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-717ce00887623dbf4555a6d165532552\"><\/div>\n<p>Even when the death stats are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/covid19\/health_disparities.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">adjusted<\/a> for age, the disproportionate impact is less than feared: Blacks made up 21.5 percent of age-adjusted deaths versus 12.8 percent of the age-adjusted population; Hispanics made up 27 percent of deaths and 19.6 percent of the population. <\/p>\n<p>Thus, in the Covid crisis, any disparities among racial groups owe more to different rates of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-derek-chauvin-trial-coverage-to-ninth-day\/\" title=\"The Derek Chauvin Trial \u2013 Coverage to Ninth Day\">pre-existing medical conditions<\/a>, \u201cessential\u201d employment in the lockdown, and neighborhood density than to systemic racism in treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the damning view that systemic racism contributed to Covid-19 misery continues to hold sway in medical articles from the beginning of the pandemic to today. As recent as February 2024, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/384\/BMJ-2023-076106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> by researchers at Duke University claiming the pandemic was \u201cproviding a more accurate understanding that was unsurprising to anyone who has examined health equity: covid-19 is a preventable disease that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-poised-to-ban-police-from-arresting-prostitutes\/\" title=\"California Poised To Ban Police From Arresting Prostitutes\">disproportionately affects racial minorities<\/a>. \u2026 [T]he effects \u2026 were magnified most powerfully for black, Latino, and indigenous people in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in April 2020, one early <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2764789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">medical article<\/a> was published on the Journal of the American Medical Association website by Dr. Clyde W. Yancy \u2014 the vice dean of diversity and inclusion at Northwestern University and a cardiologist for 42 years. \u201cThe pattern is irrefutable: underrepresented minorities are developing COVID-19 infection more frequently and dying disproportionately,\u201d Yancy wrote. \u201cWhy is this uniquely important to me? I am an academic cardiologist; I study health care disparities; and I am a black man.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-71349ba5557493ae80686c464366b989 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-71349ba5557493ae80686c464366b989\"><\/div>\n<p>He noted that a survey of 131 black-majority counties found an infection rate more than three-fold higher than in white counties \u2014 and a death rate more than six-fold higher. \u201cA 6-fold increase in the rate of death for African Americans due to a now ubiquitous virus should be deemed unconscionable. This is a moment of ethical reckoning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His column has been cited 1,330 times by other medical articles. <\/p>\n<p>The CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/covid_weekly\/index.htm#Comorbidities\">reports<\/a>, \u201cFor over 5% of these deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate,\u201d meaning it\u2019s likely preexisting conditions played a role in up to some 95 percent of Covid-19 mortalities \u2014 with an average of four comorbidities per death. Blacks have significantly higher rates of the top five most common comorbidities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/covid19\/mortality-overview.htm\">the CDC says<\/a>. Given this, it is remarkable that Covid-19 didn\u2019t kill far more blacks and other racial minorities. <\/p>\n<p>Asked about this, Dr. Yancy responded to me: \u201cUltimately, there is no good story here. Nothing amazing; no victory. These are real deaths, impacting real people across the full spectrum of America. \u2026 [M]y own patients felt the sting of death.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cYou are correct; death rates eventually regressed to the mean, a not unexpected biostatistical phenomenon, but the consequent <em>and residual <\/em>toll on our communities cannot be overstated\u201d\u00a0(italics his).<\/p>\n<p>Still, the statistics paint a brighter picture than the medical establishment will admit. Perhaps we are making progress in ensuring nonwhite people get better access to better care. But when you hold a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When the \u201cexperts\u201d have spent years decrying racism in our health care system, they see Covid-19 as further proof of their long-held views \u2014 no matter what the data actually shows.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2c0d6076fe74d9ea93d8f096a2af7c08 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2c0d6076fe74d9ea93d8f096a2af7c08\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-March, two Connecticut congressmen introduced House Resolution 1062, declaring racism a public health crisis. The resolution emphasizes the challenges communities of color encounter in accessing healthcare. 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