Black Coronavirus?

Dear Friends:

Lots of chatter about this headline: Coronavirus is killing Black Americans at a much higher rate!

Now some people have suggested that it could be a genetic preference for African Americans in these five diseases:

1. Sickle Cell Anemia. Nearly 10% of all blacks suffer from sickle cell, but sickle cell isn’t just a disease that disproportionately affects blacks. It affects those of Middle Eastern, Indian, and Mediterranean descent, too. This is because the sickle cell mutation is related to malaria, a disease that’s native to these geographic areas.
2. Diabetes. Diabetes is 60% more common in blacks than in whites. Serious complications of diabetes, like leg amputation and kidney disease, are also more common in blacks.
3. Stroke. Strokes kill 4 times more blacks than whites, and blacks have almost double the risk of stroke than whites.
4. Cancer. While cancer treatment is statistically just as effective for blacks than any other racial group, cancer kills blacks more. Black men have a 40% higher cancer mortality rate than white men and black women have 20% higher cancer mortality rate than white women. This may be attributed to a couple factors, but many researchers believe education about prevention, early detection and access to healthcare affects this percentage the most significantly.
5. High Blood Pressure. Black men and women develop high blood pressure much earlier than many other racial groups. For example, nearly 42% of black men and 45% of black women have high blood pressure beginning tin their twenties.

BUT!

Rather than just say that blacks are more predisposed to these diseases....... I think the problem might be more of a socio/economic cause than genetic, kids!

A good percentage of African Americans in the U.S. are at or near the bottom of the totem pole folks, (Yes, I realize this normally refers to Indians........ but I took a license!) and as a result, they are more deficient in health care and nutrition than your average white American!

Now if they wanted to do a realistic comparison.... then they should start getting info from poor, uneducated rednecks, and see how that stacks up against the blacks!

The proof is in the pudding, folks!

The way I see it anyway!