B|E Note #AfterThought: NY State Sen. Kevin Parker
A conversation on the impact of COVID-19 in New York City's most underserved communities
a B|E Note AfterThought
B|E Note Publisher Charles Ellison talks with NY State Senator Kevin Parker (D-21st-Brooklyn) about the dire situation in New York City: a coronavirus pandemic made even more dangerous by systemic racism and generations of equity gaps.
“The Coronavirus has ripped the ugly scab off of the sort of health disparities in this country,” said Parker. “And although I'm talking about New York, you're seeing the same narrative in terms of the disproportionate impact of this virus on Black communities from New Orleans to Detroit. And so it actually begins prior to this moment, we already begin with a number of health disparities.”
“If you don't understand what health disparities are, is it is the fact that in African American communities, we have the highest rates of misdiagnosis and under diagnosis of any other people groups in the country. So you start at that moment, and then we have the most comorbidities, we have people with diabetes and high blood pressure, people with asthma and high cholesterol. And so they're already walking into a place where their health is not great.”
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