Dr. Anthony Fauci on Health Disparities in African American Community

Dr. Anthony Fauci: ""Health disparities have always existed for the African American community, but here again with the crisis how it's shining a bright light on how unacceptable that is...when you have a situation like the Coronavirus they are suffering disproportionately." He concludes, "When all this is over, and as we've said, it will end. We will get over Coronavirus, but there will still be health disparities, which we really do need to address in the African American community."

[shaun_rambaran]

I need to stop reading the comments on these things...

[finnmccool]

Too bad Trump didn't stick around for the goddamned truth. Big ups for Tony Fauci once again.

[jeromemccollom]

THIS is the man who SHOULD be president, not that Orange Joke

[tiffanycurtis]

AFRICAN AMERICANS ESPECIALLY WOMEN 78% ARE TO FAT OVERWEIGHT OBESE YOU HEARD WHAT HE SAID HYPERTENSION DIABETES HEART DISEASE OBESITY AND IT ALL COMES FROM OVERWEIGHT OBESE MORBIDLY OBESE NOW DO YOU GET IT ESPECIALLY WOMEN WHO TALK SHIT AND TRY TO POISON MINDS THAT BEING OVERWEIGHT OBESE FAT IS SEXY AND OOOH SO POSITIVE REMEMBER GLUTTONY IS A SIN ALL YOU FAT HYPOCRITES THAT GO TO CHURCH JUST LET CORONA BE THE CHANCE TO GET HEALTHY YOU HEARD WHAT THE GOOD DOC SAID ✊🏾

[vantate]

Most Blacks have poor access to healthy food, health care, etc. There aren't large grocery stores in the city and most don't have a primary doctor.

[DoctorateInPeace]

Blacks are mislabeled often in the medical community due to unreported physician discrimination! What do you think a black patient would do once they pick up on condescending tones from physicians? They’ll get defensive and turned off. Then they’ll get labeled as agitated and combative. It’ll go into the chart and then every healthcare worker in her chart will treat the patient as hands off as possible to avoid confrontation. The patient will then get more offended after they feel neglected and the cycle will propagate ending with high morbidity and early mortality due to poor medical care.

[kobanmax]

Black men with kidney issues are very high..this is also why they die.

[johnblaze]

No, it's because they are on FB live partying on the street and not taking this seriously.

[pernus]

It’s almost as if this pandemic has laid bare, and exasperated, all the worst things in our sick sick country.

[vinniemascaro]

He is saying when they have these things...but he names a lot of self inflicted behavior where behavior is never mentioned because it'd politically incorrect. When covid was rampant, black communities still protested, had huge gatherings..basically didn't care or thought ignorantly towards it. That will spread something for sure. Disease and air particles do not share a color preference

[bhushan]

They voted for Joe Biden....sidelined Bernie..people will now realise health is a right.

[txdominoe]

He'll be fired soon...(telling the truth and speakin up for the black community)..oh yea..trump will fire his ass..trump is already tired of him contradicting him by telling the truth

[gladiatorofthespokenword]

1984 Double speak Orwellian ambassadors with all the answers are here to save the right.

[davidjuliusgoldbergoosdodd]

ooooh booy, I haven't trusted this guy for a minute. I really do hope that this statement about the 'african american community' and coming statements like it that could be made about other marginalized and disadvantaged communities won't be used to justify stringent taking away of those people's freedoms under the guise of medical protection and greater good-ism.

[friedrichwilhelmvonsteuben]

Is he implying that someone else's life choices and preexisting genetic health conditions is the fault of others?

[sb]

Most of you are talking trash, conspiracy. WTF. Take responsibility for your life and your health.

[dailyflash]

I'm not super pc or anything, but nobody I know refers to "backs" or "the blacks". Everyone I know says African American or black people. No journalists call them blacks or the blacks either. Not even on Fox. I'll call people what they like to be called, unless they want to be called something inappropriate, like "Your highness", but who knows? Maybe I could get into it.