The pandemic has made implicit and explicit biases present in our medical system impossible to ignore. healthcare
3) Federal and local government has failed to gather the demographic data needed to protect these communities
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as many state and local governments, failed to collect and report race and ethnicity information about Covid-19 cases at the beginning of this pandemic. And a significant number of them, like Nebraska and North Dakota, still fail to do so., 18 states and US territories are not reporting this data, and of those that are reporting this information, “almost every state is missing varying amounts of race and ethnicity data.
The CDC’s website only provides racial data for approximately half the people diagnosed with Covid-19. Considering the long history between race and disproportionate health impacts and medical treatment in the country, getting these statistics is crucial for protecting marginalized communities. It was, after all, the few places reporting these racial statistics that helped sound the alarm that Black communities were being so severely impacted.
On a local level, this information can assist public health officials in ensuring that communities that are being disproportionately impacted can get the resources they need. Unfortunately, this is not surprising when looking at the history of how the United States has regarded Black people’s health. The Tuskegee syphilis experiments come to mind, in which Black men were knowingly allowed to suffer from the disease despite the existence of an available treatment., the US Public Health Service and the Tuskegee Institute told Black men in the study they were being treated for “bad blood.
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