WHO IS DYING FROM COVID 19
WHICH COUNTRY ARE YOU IN ? CUBA OR INDONESIA , VIETNAM OR BANGLADESH
IN THE USA, WHAT IS YOUR INCOME? WHAT IS YOUR COLOUR? WHICH PART OF TOWN DO YOU LIVE IN ?
IN BRASIL, ARE YOU POOR?
Where are people dying?
The data, which shows death rates in each of the city’s ZIP codes, underscores the deep disparities already unearthed by the outbreak. While the majority of the deaths across the city have been older residents, race and income have proven to be the largest factors in determining who lives and who dies.
Neighborhoods with high concentrations of black and Latino people, as well as low-income residents, suffered the highest death rates, while some wealthier areas — primarily in Manhattan — saw almost no deaths, according to the new data, which was published by the New York City Health Department. FROM NEW YORK TIMES
Risk groups
o Older age, especially > 65 yrs. and people with comorbidities appear more likely to develop an infection and severe symptoms and be at risk for death.
§ Males are more affected, especially with critical illness COVID-19.
o Younger adults are also being hospitalized in the U.S.
§ Adults 20–44 account for 20% of hospitalizations, 12% of ICU admissions.
o In the U.S.:
§ Obesity appears to be emerging as a risk factor, BMI ≥ 30, in nearly half of hospitalized patients.
§ Blacks appear to be hospitalized at a greater than expected frequency than expected on a population basis.
MOST OF THE ELDERLY LIVED IN NURSING HOMES, MEN IN JAILS OR WORKED IN ABATTOIRS.
THE DEATHS WERE RELATED TO THE AMOUNT OF INFECTION AND ITS FREQUENCY. USA
In Dade County, where Miami is situated, if you look at the Zip Code, the highest rates of infections were in BLACK, POOR or IMMIGRANT neighbourhoods. The difference in incidence between a largely WHITE neighbourhood like Coral Gables with a Black neighbourhood or a largely immigrant neighbourhood such as Hialeah is more than 8-fold.
The survival of Covid19 patients also depended upon your race in America. Proportionately more Black people have died than their numbers in the population.
Nearly 20 per cent of the people admitted to the ICU has been under the age of 50..
So in THE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN (Covid shows how GREAT it has been for BLACK people)
If you are white, do not live in a nursing home, the chances of you being in jail is small (One million Blacks in Jail) or do not work in an abattoir (majority of the workers are immigrants) and get your food delivered by Instacart and wine from Total Wine (delivered)
And live in a leafy suburb or gated community, you have nothing to fear from this COVID 19. All others beware..
Read this story of courage from a young Brasilian doctor and what she observed in her country, led by a Trumpist, right wing politician, Jair Bolsanaro.
RIO DE JANEIRO — When the coronavirus first came to Brazil and a call went out for volunteers to work the critical care wards, Isabella Rêllo analyzed the risks. She was 28. She lived alone. She didn't have preexisting conditions.
So while older physicians stepped back from the front lines of the coronavirus response, Rêllo stepped up.
Soon Rêllo, a pediatrician, was treating dozens of coronavirus patients. But they weren’t who she’d expected. This patient was only 30 years old. That one was 32. Nearly half the people she was seeing were young, she said, and many were dying. The narrative seared into the global consciousness in the early months of the pandemic — that the virus spared the young and ravaged the elderly — was not what she was watching unfold in Brazil.
The young were at risk. She was at risk.
Isabella Rêllo, 28, thought her youth made her safe from the coronavirus. She was shocked to see how many younger people are dying.
“One patient was young, apparently healthy,” she said. “He was so sick, with so many complications. I thought, ‘This could be me. He could be my friend.’ The quickness that this kills people, including the young, has been a shock.”
As the coronavirus escalates its assault on the developing world, the victim profile is beginning to change. The young are dying of covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, at rates unseen in wealthier countries — a development that further illustrates the unpredictable nature of the disease as it pushes into new cultural and geographic landscapes.
In Brazil, 15 percent of deaths have been people under 50 — a rate more than 10 times greater than in Italy or Spain. In Mexico, the trend is even more stark: Nearly one-fourth of the dead have been between 25 and 49. In India, officials reported this month that nearly half of the dead were younger than 60. In Rio de Janeiro state, more than two-thirds of hospitalizations are for people younger than 49!
From Washington Post
All of it has left Rêllo, the 28-year-old pediatrician who volunteered to treat coronavirus patients, terrified. But she kept working — until earlier this week, when she started to feel ill.
A dry cough. Sneezing. Body aches. A test soon confirmed her fears: She’d caught the virus. She doesn’t know what it will do to her. She’s young, but she says she no longer believes that’s enough.
She says she thinks of others whom she treated. She knows what they looked like.
“Like me,” she said.
