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2020-05-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

'It's disturbing': Coronavirus kills black residents at dramatic rates across Louisiana

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-28 10:32|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "It’s something we should all be ashamed of, frankly," LaVeist said.

Well, IMO, African Americans should be ashamed that so many white people suffer from Cystic fibrosis.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-28 10:54|| 2020-05-28 10:54|| Front Page Top

#2 In Black Africa the use of Hydroxychloroquine to battle malaria is widespread, that's why CV never took off the way I expected over there.

State side, I'm sure Medicaid is a coefficient to LA's African American CV Death Rates.

Posted by mossomo 2020-05-28 11:55|| 2020-05-28 11:55|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Shhhhhhh, you are not allowed to spread such truths. Don't want you to get into any trouble.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-28 12:08|| 2020-05-28 12:08|| Front Page Top

#4 That makes some sense.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-28 13:23|| 2020-05-28 13:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Vitamin D deficiency plus diabetes and heart disease. Take those out, and how much difference is left?

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-28 15:48|| 2020-05-28 15:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually, given how much vitamin D deficiency plays into this, if I were Black I’d be furious that vouchers for free D-3 pills weren’t being passed out by do-gooders on street corners in Black neighbourhoods.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-28 15:53|| 2020-05-28 15:53|| Front Page Top

#7 if I were ~~Black~~ deficient

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-28 16:49|| 2020-05-28 16:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Does this control for statistically proven higher rates of obesity, hypertension, cardiac disease, and type 2 diabetes amongst Louisianae blacks? If not, then the headline is fearmongering.

Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-05-28 21:35|| 2020-05-28 21:35|| Front Page Top

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