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The first study to offer disaggregated Asian American data shows Chinese New Yorkers have had higher Covid death rates than any other racial group at 37%, and South Asians in the city have had the second highest rate of test positivity behind Hispanics.
The study was posted on medRxiv, a "preprint service" that distributes unpublished medical papers before they've been peer reviewed. The study is the first of its kind to offer some disaggregated data on Asian American Covid-19 patients. The analysis examined more than 85,000 patients who sought care in the New York City Health and Hospitals system — the largest public health care system in the United States — and used last name databases and language information to disaggregate, or separate data, about the city’s two largest Asian American subgroups, South Asian and Chinese.
The results also show that while Chinese New Yorkers had lower test positivity and hospitalization rates than South Asians, they had the highest mortality rate of all racial and ethnic groups. Chinese New Yorkers had a mortality rate of 35.7 percent, compared to 25.5 percent for all Asian Americans and 23.7 percent for Black New Yorkers. They were also about 1.5 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white patients.
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Interesting. I wonder why are the Chinese dying more,is it something biological or racism in health care?
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No. But giving it a glace,it gives the same factors as Black folks and their higher rate of covid. Looking at population size in NYC,there are more Black New Yorkers than Chinese so it's kida weird for the discrepancy despite the same social factors.
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In relatieve numbers they die more of COVID.
Here is the actual paper. See Table 1. Characteristics and Comorbidities of Patients Tested for SARS-CoV-2 by Race and Ethnicit, Figure 1. COVID-19 Outcomes by Race/Ethnicity and Table 2. Odds of Death among Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 by Select Characteristics.
quote: There is growing recognition of the burden of COVID-19 among Asian Americans, but data on outcomes among Asian ethnic subgroups remain extremely limited. We conducted a retrospective analysis of 85,328 patients tested for COVID-19 at New York City’s public hospital system between March 1 and May 31, 2020, to describe characteristics and COVID-19 outcomes of Asian ethnic subgroups compared to Asians overall and other racial/ethnic groups. South Asians had the highest rates of positivity and hospitalization among Asians, second only to Hispanics for positivity and Blacks for hospitalization. Chinese patients had the highest mortality rate of all groups and were nearly 1.5 times more likely to die than Whites. The high burden of COVID-19 among South Asian and Chinese Americans underscores the urgent needs for improved data collection and reporting as well as public health program and policy efforts to mitigate the disparate impact of COVID-19 among these communities.
From 2010 to 2015, the Chinese alone or in combination population in New York City increased by 16 percent from 484,779 to 564,636 – faster than the city’s overall 4 percent increase and the 13 percent growth of the total Asian population. The Chinese alone population increased by 16 percent from 466,690 in 2010 to 539,381 in 2015.
New York City was home to 82 percent of New York State’s Chinese residents. Chinese New Yorkers lived primarily in Queens (40 percent), Brooklyn (37 percent), and Manhattan (19 percent) (Figure 1). The share of Chinese in Manhattan dropped by two percentage points from 2010 to 2015, matched by a two percentage point increase in the share of Chinese in Brooklyn. Neighborhoods with large Chinese populations include Chinatown in Manhattan; Bayside, Elmhurst and Flushing in Queens; and Bensonhurst, Sheepshead Bay, and Sunset Park in Brooklyn.
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Medical redlining ... the best trauma care is in the "best" neighborhoods
Chinese people outside of Chinatown in Manhattan live at the end of the subway lines in both Queens & Brooklyn.. that is a long way from the best Manhattan hospitals..
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This is disgusting to associate Usain Bolt with this virus.
quote: The UK strain's Usain Bolt-like infection rate has certainly made that job all the more difficult, especially since the federal government has refused to mandate testing for international travelers, but New York is forging ahead nonetheless.
quote:Originally posted by Yatunde Lisa: Medical redlining ... the best trauma care is in the "best" neighborhoods
Chinese people outside of Chinatown in Manhattan live at the end of the subway lines in both Queens & Brooklyn.. that is a long way from the best Manhattan hospitals..
heffa please.. check that statement that makes no sense. how could there be 'redlining' of Chinese people from the best Manhattan hospitals when the biggest Chinese concentration is already in Manhattan, and Chinese people in New York already have fairly good household incomes?
and what does subway lines have to do with 'redlining'? you telling us that Chinese people can't get from Queens to a good hospital in Manhattan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_people_in_New_York_City They ain't got cars, or money for can or subway fares? Chinese people are already big in Manhattan and there are plenty of subway routes to where ever they want to go. your 'redlining' talk is just plain stupid in this situation.
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