Daily archives: 7. July 2020

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Who’s dying of Covid-19?

Sharon Begley: To understand who’s dying of Covid-19 look to social factors like race more than preexisting diseases, in STAT, 15. Juni 2020. In her article on the STAT-News page, Begely argues that the decisive factors for dying from COVID-19 are not preexisting diseases as initially assumed. In the US, people are exposed to a significantly higher risk of dying from COVID-19 due to racist ascriptions. “The higher the percentage of Black residents in a county, the higher its death rate from Covid-19 “. Begely sees the reasons for this in the qualitatively different access to the health system, but […]