Obesity, focused on African American people because they are disproportionately affected by the disease, which results from infection with the new coronavirus.While all people have a risk of contracting the infection and developing the disease, this risk is not equally distributed.As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) note, “Long-standing systemic health and social inequities have put many people from racial and ethnic minority groups at increased risk of getting sick and dying from COVID-19.”Various studies and reviews have demonstrated this disproportionate impact.
The articles consistently point to an association between ethnicity and race and COVID-19 severity, highlighting that the disease and our approach to it must.