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Health Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color: Resources

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  United States Human and Health Services - Office of Minority Health

The COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force was established by Executive Order 13995, Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery, which was issued on January 21, 2021. The Task Force is part of the government-wide effort to identify and eliminate health and social disparities that result in disproportionately higher rates of exposure, illness, hospitalization and death related to COVID-19.

The Task Force's mission is to provide specific recommendations to the President of the United States for mitigating inequities caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and for preventing such inequities in the future.

We’ve assembled a diverse and comprehensive team of leading experts in health, education, and the economy to shape the work of the COVID Collaborative, develop consensus recommendations, and engage with state and local leaders across America – ensuring that our efforts are truly from the nation, for the nation.

 

     https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/index.htm

 

Unequal and unjust impact of COVID-19

This pandemic reinforces the fact that every person's health is intertwined with the health of others in their community. However, the racial and ethnic disparities observed in these data demonstrate that Black, Brown, Indigenous, and other communities of color are suffering a disproportionate impact, and bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic.

     COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

The pages in COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities include data and information about exposure to the virus; illness, hospitalization, and death resulting from COVID-19; and other effects of the pandemic, which are higher among Hispanic or Latino, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander people.

       The COVID Racial Data Tracker

COVID-19 is affecting Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other people of color the most.

The COVID Racial Data Tracker is a collaboration between the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. Together, we’re gathering the most complete and up-to-date race and ethnicity data on COVID-19 in the United States.

NOTE - As of March 7, 2021 the COVID Tracking Project is no longer collecting new data.  This resource contains historical data prior to March 7, 2021, and "will continue to share research, analysis, and documentation in the months ahead."

      COVID-19 Health Equity Interactive Dashboard

Early data about COVID-19 suggests that communities are affected very differently due to social determinants of health like population density, poverty, residential segregation, underlying chronic health conditions, and availability of medical services. In order to predict how the epidemic will continue to unfold and prepare for the future, it is critical to understand differences in underlying risk factors. There is no one-size-fits all approach to combat the epidemic, but accurate and meaningful data is a key component of a robust public health response that is informed by contextual factors and prioritizes health equity.

The COVID-19 Health Equity Dashboard ( COVID19.emory.edu) seeks to fill the gaps in county-level data about the virus and underlying social determinants of health. Our goal is to facilitate easy comparisons of counties with respect to COVID-19 outcomes and social determinants. We hope this becomes a valuable resource for and critical component of tailored public health responses to COVID-19 across the wide range of environments that Americans inhabit.

   Ending Structural Racism

The biomedical research enterprise is powered by people committed to scientific advancement and innovation to improve human health and reduce the burden of disease for all. NIH is committed to breaking down the barriers that prevent the full breadth of talent from contributing to the biomedical enterprise. The enterprise is strengthened when it harnesses the complete intellectual capital of the nation, bringing diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and skillsets to apply to complex problems. We recognize our efforts aimed at achieving scientific workforce diversity are hindered by organizational structures, systems, and policies that perpetuate exclusion and inequity based on race. Organizational structures, policies, practices, and social norms that perpetuate bias, prejudice, discrimination, and racism limit the pace of scientific progress.

 Black Coalition Against COVID-19

The Black Coalition Against COVID is starting a national dialogue about COVID-19 through the launch of the Love Letter to Black America, from America’s Black Doctors and Nurses which is rooted in love of and for the Black community. This initiative is a collaboration with Howard University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Charles Drew University, National Medical Association, National Black Nurses Association, and the National Urban League.

      covidblack.org

Born out of a pandemic, but not defined by it, COVID Black started in April 2020 with a call to faculty in colleges and universities to demand that their local and state public health departments collect and publish racial data on the coronavirus pandemic. Since that time, COVID Black has evolved into an organization that recognizes the power of health data and information combined with critical and justice-oriented theoretical frameworks of Black Studies, Black Digital Humanities, Public Humanities, Health Humanities, and Public Health to tell empowering stories about Black life that address racial health disparities.