re: Local ER doc (South LA) here to answer your COVID-19 questions

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I don’t think the black part is really noteworthy. It just so happens in our area people in poor overall health with bad diabetes happens to be more skewed to the AA population

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This will become very noteworthy once this turns political (already starting to get there). Eventually we'll have to loosen the screws on this shutdown, and the 'easy' political victim argument will be on the rise....

"Sure, when white people were getting sick we shut down your precious economy. Now that it's disproportionally inner city black people still getting it, all of a sudden it's more important for Karen to be able to sit inside Starbucks"