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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/health/coronavirus-black-patients.html

This article was established on 23rd May 2020 in the New York Times, written by Roni

Caryn Rabin, suggest that more than half of the 61 black patients with positive corona viral

testing were admitted to hospital, compared with about 1/4 or less of those who tested positive in

Hispanic, White and Blacks patients. Black patients also were so sick that they needed to be

treated in an intensive care facility. Even after a series of differences between patient groups

were assessed by researchers, black patients still required hospitalization 2.7 times more when

searching. The study was too small for patient groups to detect differences in death rates.

However, the burden of Covid-19 deaths is disproportionately large in all black people in

California. Black people make up 6% of the state's population and approximately the same

percentage of the Covid-19 cases in the country. However, according to the California Ministry

of Public Health, the black patients represented 10.3 percent of Covid-19 deaths as of 13th May.

The two sides.

There is an entirely different view of these two sides towards COVID-19. This pandemic

situation is a fear from the perspective of the Chinese and all Blacks. They argue that because of

Blacks' negative perception, they are more concerned about hate crimes than about the fear of

coronaviruses. As the virus spreads across many Blacks, in their daily lives they suffered

numerous racism and hate crimes, and in their classrooms or in the public space they cannot even

house freely. And they think it is fitting to blame China for turning the coronavirus into a

pandemic. In focusing on that, they refer to the disease as a "Chinese virus" and this historically

incites the myth that the Chinese are afflicted with the coronavirus. I stand on the Blacks side of

these two viewpoints, as I am one of the Koreans who live in America in fear of hate crime. I

was very surprised to hear the news that a white man attacked one Blacks woman in New York
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City and heard derogatory words like "Disease slut" only because she was an Blacks woman and

she was wearing a mask. One problem is that the Implicit Association Test in recent years is the

main measure used to assess implied bias, for reasons such as poor test reliability (Kurashige,

2016).

Finally, on a scale of 1-10, how seriously I think this issue to be within America is about

6. It’s because this discrimination is no longer that only a small number of people suffer from it.

the Black Response to Covid-19 can continue the safe systemic change in the country. The Race

Justice Movement has changed what is possible for America in the last few years. We can do this

again and work together to change the mindset of racism during this Covid-19 times.
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References.

Retrieved From: Black Coronavirus Patients Land in Hospitals More Often, Study Finds;

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/health/coronavirus-black-patients.html

Retrieved From: Fault on Both Sides? Racism, Anti-Racism and the Persistence of White

Supremacy; https://www.abc.net.au/religion/fault-on-both-sides-racism-anti-racism-and-

the-persistence-of-wh/10094946

Kurashige, L. (2016). Two faces of exclusion: The untold history of anti-Blacks racism in the

United States. UNC Press Books.