Trump says white people can’t get the vaccination.
Trump says white people are being discriminated against on covid treatment: “If you’re white, you don’t get the vaccine or if you’re white you don’t get therapeutics .. In NY state, if you’re white, you go to the back of the line if you want help.” pic.twitter.com/QLgkC3VESk
In a perverse way, this could boost vaccination rates among the previously unvaccinated. If they feel they’re being denied the shot in favour of those who are less “worthy”, they’ll demand. Not because they now “believe” in its efficacy, but because they feel entitled to it more than the undeserving brown people “ahead” of them in line.
There is a smidgen of a grain of correspondence to a recent slice of reality in what Trump said. I can’t find the article yet, but there was one hospital system that determined who would get Covid treatment using a point system, and if a patient was Black they were automatically assigned more points, so that an otherwise healthy Black patient might receive Covid treatment ahead of a white patient with dangerous comorbidities. The hospital system was challenged on that policy, and they dropped it.
@6 now that you mention it it was certainly news here for a while that people of colour were more likely to get Covid and more likely to have serious ramifications from getting it–unclear (to me at least) what proportion of this was due to racism, to lifestyle (living in smaller quarters with more people, likely to work frontline jobs, likely not to be able to work from home, likely to be unable to take time off to isolate) or to genetics.
Here you are, link to article. The NY State Department of Health did indeed issue guidelines for allocation of monoclonal antibody treatment for covid (drugs in “severe shortage”) that prioritised non-whites over whites.
The excuse is that non-whites are at greater risk, but once one controls for things like greater obesity and lower financial status (both risk factors for severe covid), any such effect is small at best.
It’s notable that in googling for this I could only find a report in right-wing news.
not Bruce, I know people who hold all of those views simultaneously, and will veer from one argument to another at the speed of a Gish gallop. And never realize they keep contradicting themselves.
“One of the largest hospital systems in the United States gave race more weight than diabetes, obesity, asthma, and hypertension combined in its allocation scheme for COVID treatments, only to reverse the policy after threats of legal action”
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“”Black race was not associated with higher in-hospital mortality than white race,” an analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded, “after adjustment for differences in sociodemographic and clinical characteristics on admission.” A study of Maryland and District of Columbia hospitals likewise found no relationship between race and severe disease “after adjustment for clinical factors.””
In a perverse way, this could boost vaccination rates among the previously unvaccinated. If they feel they’re being denied the shot in favour of those who are less “worthy”, they’ll demand. Not because they now “believe” in its efficacy, but because they feel entitled to it more than the undeserving brown people “ahead” of them in line.
YNnB: We’ll see… I rather doubt it, but that would nice.
Straight from the Trump war commode; ‘Switch from racism to reverse racism, leverage with Covid.’ Fucking idiot.
I wonder how many of the following propositions are held at the same time by Trump supporters:
1) The virus isn’t real, but a scam.
2) The virus escaped from/was released by a Chinese bioweapons lab.
3) The vaccine doesn’t really work, but is just a means for the government to tag/track/control people.
4) Actual mtreatments for COVID-19 are being denied and supressed.
5) Trump should be given full credit for developing the vaccines under his watch.
6) Lockdowns, physical distancing, and mask mandates are a plot to destroy capitalism and remove freedoms.
7) Restrictions placed on the uncaccinated are like Nazi persecution of the Jews.
8) Demanding vaccination is just like Nazi persecution of the Jews.
9) Vaccines are being withheld deliberately from White people, so they will die.
I’m not quite half way to a BINGO card, but I’m sure I’ve missed a few.
Certainly 1 and 5.
There is a smidgen of a grain of correspondence to a recent slice of reality in what Trump said. I can’t find the article yet, but there was one hospital system that determined who would get Covid treatment using a point system, and if a patient was Black they were automatically assigned more points, so that an otherwise healthy Black patient might receive Covid treatment ahead of a white patient with dangerous comorbidities. The hospital system was challenged on that policy, and they dropped it.
@6 now that you mention it it was certainly news here for a while that people of colour were more likely to get Covid and more likely to have serious ramifications from getting it–unclear (to me at least) what proportion of this was due to racism, to lifestyle (living in smaller quarters with more people, likely to work frontline jobs, likely not to be able to work from home, likely to be unable to take time off to isolate) or to genetics.
@6: “I can’t find the article yet, …”
Here you are, link to article. The NY State Department of Health did indeed issue guidelines for allocation of monoclonal antibody treatment for covid (drugs in “severe shortage”) that prioritised non-whites over whites.
The excuse is that non-whites are at greater risk, but once one controls for things like greater obesity and lower financial status (both risk factors for severe covid), any such effect is small at best.
It’s notable that in googling for this I could only find a report in right-wing news.
not Bruce, I know people who hold all of those views simultaneously, and will veer from one argument to another at the speed of a Gish gallop. And never realize they keep contradicting themselves.
Another link.
“One of the largest hospital systems in the United States gave race more weight than diabetes, obesity, asthma, and hypertension combined in its allocation scheme for COVID treatments, only to reverse the policy after threats of legal action”
[…]
“”Black race was not associated with higher in-hospital mortality than white race,” an analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded, “after adjustment for differences in sociodemographic and clinical characteristics on admission.” A study of Maryland and District of Columbia hospitals likewise found no relationship between race and severe disease “after adjustment for clinical factors.””