Fauci: COVID-19 is a 'double whammy' on nonwhite Americans. Vaccine trials should represent that
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Speaking at the Bloomberg Equality Summit on Wednesday, top government infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci again highlighted the COVID-19 pandemic's disproportionate impacts on minority populations in the United States. That's not genetic. That's ourFauci: COVID-19 is a 'double whammy' on nonwhite Americans. Vaccine trials should represent that
Speaking at the Bloomberg Equality Summit on Wednesday, top government infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci again highlighted the COVID-19 pandemic's disproportionate impacts on minority populations in the United States. That's not genetic. That's our society. As Fauci told his audience, American minority groups both are more likely to hold «essential» jobs than white Americans and have higher rates of diabetes, hypertension, and other diet-related, poverty-related health issues. «There's almost a double whammy on the minority populations,» said Fauci. With that in mind, Fauci again urged companies to gain representative samples of Black Americans and other nonwhite groups in late-stage vaccine tests. «We have to do much, much better with the relative percentage of African Americans that are in the trial.» Read more