The Influence of Health & Racial Disparities on the African American Mortality and Mortality from COVID-19

By now we have all heard of the Coronavirus which the WHO defines as an infectious disease caused by an infection from the SARS-CoV-2 virus6. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between health & racial disparities and their effects on the morbidity and mortality rates of African Americans who contracted the virus during the pandemic. We found that there was a relationship between race and various outcomes from the coronavirus. We found that there is a significant relationship between various comorbidities and increased infection rates among African Americans. Although we did not find a relationship between race and the likelihood to be hospitalized, we did find that African Americans who were hospitalized suffered from worse infections due to comorbidities and that they were also more likely to die of acute respiratory issues. Our results indicate that the worsened conditions from the coronavirus which African Americans faced and continue to face are due to health disparities that influence our social determinants of health