Is the Department of Health and Human Services saying skin color is a medical condition?
In case you are wondering out of 3 million cases in Florida, whites have a higher fatality rate from Covid19
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Does anyone have more information on this?
That’s a spin-doctoring BS article. Of course “young & fit” people are not going to get the expensive and very limited in supply mono-clonal anti-body treatment.
Even with all the BS in the article the situation seems to be that you need to be above 65 and have another high risk factor to be eligible for the treatment, regardless of race.
The little tiny bit of actual truth in the article seems to be that one of the high risk factors seems to be coming from a “high risk ethnicity group”, which is certainly an administrative short-cut to sound statistical data that shows that people from these groups really have a higher chance of dying (which might be partially genetic and partially due to socio-economic factors).
Thank you!
But according to the Mayo Clinic, while there’s no evidence that people of color have genetic or other biological factors that make them more likely to be affected by COVID-19, they are more likely to have underlying health conditions that can be problematic for COVID such as type 2 diabetes. So, why is the race listed as a criterion, rather than the underlying health conditions that would make COVID more problematic? https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/11/14/is-race-a-qualifier-for-monoclonal-antibody-treatments-in-texas-n475756
There is more recent scientific data showing that people of south-east Asian origin do have a higher risk due to genetic factors.
But it really doesn’t matter if it is genetic or socio-economic if it is an administrative short-cut for patient triage. When you have the clear statistical proof that people from certain high risk ethnicities die more often from Covid19 complications then obviously it is the right choice to prioritize such patients when it comes to limited but life-saving treatments.
Overwhelmed and understaffed hospitals don’t have time to dig into possible underlying health conditions that even the patients themselves might not know about.
“if it is an administrative short-cut”
Isn’t this they very definition of fascism. Rather then judging a person based on the content of their character, medical conditions etc . . . taking a short cut and judging them simply on the color of their skin.
Clinical triage during a pandemic isn’t pretty. Deciding who gets to live and who might might die in a pandemic based on incomplete information sucks. Everyone knows this and no one does it because of some ideological BS. You just have to take the best information that is readily available and hope you made the right decision.
So best is to get everyone vaccinated and out of hospital in the first place so that doctors don’t have to make these kind of difficult decisions.
