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[quote=Anonymous][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]

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

Umm no. That is not how a virus works. Its simply a factor of its spreading in person-to-person contact and hitting individuals in high density areas who can't or won't shelter-in-place.

End of. The UK is about to hit 1,000 deaths a day by Easter (with only a population of 30 million). 80% of the dead there are white.

They're doing far worse off than Michigan because the virus jumps to whoever it can. So stay home and you'll be safe.[/quote]

I don't think anyone is arguing that the melanin level of a person's skin is making them more or less susceptible to covid. But, rather, the factors that contribute to disparate health conditions among racial groups in the US are contributing to higher numbers of covid cases among AAs. In the UK, health care is (more or less) universal, for starters. Racial dynamics are different in different countries -- and states, frankly -- and so you'd need to look at racial disparities in covid cases based on the context of that country. 
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