New research confirms associations between COVID-19 mortality rates and socioeconomic position, gender, ethnicity and race.

68% of COVID-19 deaths during the first year of the pandemic were adults in low socioeconomic positions

University of South Florida epidemiologist Jason Salemi’s research confirmed associations between COVID-19 mortality rates and socioeconomic position, gender, ethnicity and race.

Salemi’s research shows:

  • The mortality rate of low SEP adults is five times higher when compared to high SEP adults, and the mortality rate of intermediate SEP adults is two times higher.
  • White women make up the largest population group considered high SEP. In contrast, nearly 60 percent of Hispanic men are in a low SEP.
  • When compared, the mortality rate of low SEP Hispanic men is 27 times higher than high SEP white women.

“The degree to which it takes a toll on communities is very unevenly distributed and we wanted to call attention to that issue,” Salemi said.

Reminder that crackers started storming state capitols demanding lockdowns end about a week after news reported covid was harming black people at far greater rates than anyone else.

The “return to normal” was driven by complete disregard to the lives of low wage workers and outright racism.

But I’m sure things are great now that the “pandemic is over”. Genocide Joe and the party of science wouldn’t lie to you. Capitalism wouldn’t just sacrifice workers like that, right?

  • TheModerateTankie [any]OPEnglish
    10•4 months ago

    And like always, never forget that this was a US bioweapon!

    I can’t access the image, but it is kind of funny that the US funded gain-of-function experiments we were doing with coronaviruses (or at least experiments very similar to gain of function), were taking place in North Carolina. They collaborated with the Wuhan institute because that’s who you would collaborate with if you wanted to research SARS. Right wingers bang on about this issue because they can do the “China bad” thing, but the research they are blaming for creating covid would have been done in North Carolina.

    Fauci told Paul at the hearing: “Dr. Baric does not do gain-of-function research, and if it is, it’s according to the guidelines and it is being conducted in North Carolina, not in China.”

    The conclusion, of course, is that since the outbreak didn’t start in North Carolina, obviously this research wasn’t responsible for covid.

    But if Covid did start in the US, how quickly does anyone think we would have detected it? It would have just been a mystery cold from hell until it got into a long term care home. It was in China for a month or two before they detected it, and unlike the US, they were actively monitoring for SARS.

    So were there any mysteriously deadly pneumonia outbreaks occuring in North Carolina in late 2019? Yes. Yes there were. In at least a couple of long term care homes. We never investigated any of those outbreaks to see if there was SARS present… because why bother? It started in China.

    • star_wraith [he/him]English
      6•4 months ago

      Americans want to blame China for COVID but if something similar starts up, say, in the deplorable conditions of a factory pig farm in Arkansas, practically every non-vegan American would become incredibly indignant over accepting any blame.

    • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]English
      1•4 months ago

      I can’t access the image

      I managed to find it in their history, here it is: https://imgur.com/a/CRwan3n

      According to him the outbreak did start in the US, but it was less contagious at the start. Hence the outbreaks in Virginia retirement homes and throughout US schools and in vapers, but not having mass-population contagion yet

      So were there any mysteriously deadly pneumonia outbreaks occuring in North Carolina in late 2019?

      The “mysterious” US outbreaks start from June 2019 into November 2019, well before the official date of the Chinese outbreak.

      There was also that weird Spanish sewer sample from May 2019? or March 2019 I forget. But that one could maybe be a freak/unrelated