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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not affecting AAs disproportionately.  It's affecting unhealthy people in general.[/quote]

33% of Illinois Covid cases are AA. 13% of the Illinois population is black. 
40% of the Michigan cases are AA. 13% of the Michigan population is black.

I do take your point that "unhealthy" people are more likely to get it, and due to a variety of factors there is a higher rate of obesity, hypertension, asthma, etc among the black population.  But race is a factor here too. [/quote]

It'd probably be slightly better to measure the racial ratios for the immediate area rather than statewide. Detroit metro area, not all of MI. Chicago metro area, not all of Illinois. The rural parts of those states are overwhelmingly white and that skews things somewhat.

[b]If race is a factor then how does it explain all the deaths in Italy and Spain and France?[/b] [/quote]

Italy and China have more smokers than the US. The US has more obese and overweight people. Obese/overweight is prevalent in black and brown communities. The doctors in the Netherlands have stated that the majority of their hospitalized patients are obese or overweight.

There can be different risk factors in different areas of the world.[/quote][/quote]

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