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Impacts Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Black Americans With Diabetes, Ted Studt
Impacts Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Black Americans With Diabetes, Ted Studt
Biology Summer Fellows
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all Americans in varying ways, but it has hit the American Black population particularly hard. It also impacts immunocompromised individuals, especially those with conditions that involve damage to or hindering of the cardiovascular or respiratory systems. I found myself asking several questions – how much did this affect individuals who suffer from such conditions, especially those who are Black Americans; how much does systemic racism play in the current pandemic; what could be done about all this; and so on. Since I myself have lived with type I diabetes for almost two decades at the …