Black Women Dying of COVID at Higher Rates Than White Men

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• By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, April 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 death rates are significantly higher among Black American women than among white men, according to a new study, suggesting that race is a factor in survival differences between men and women..
• Researchers analyzed COVID death rates in Michigan and Georgia, the only states reporting data by age, race and sex..
• The analysis by Harvard’s GenderSci Lab found that COVID death rates among Black women are nearly four times higher than those for white men;.
• COVID death rates among Black men are far higher than for any other sex and racial group — including more than six times higher than for white men..
• The difference in death rates between Black women and white women is more than triple that between white men and white women, the study found..
• And the difference in death rates between Black men and Black women is larger than the disparity between white men and white women..
• While it’s well understood that racism and social inequities, not genetics, are responsible for racial disparities in COVID deaths, many researchers focus on differences in biology to explain gender differences in death rates, the authors noted…

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From WebMD - April 9, 2021