Health Disparities in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

[ ]of this panel discussion only 12 states were collecting data on race Part of it is lack of trust of health professionals based upon infringements in the past, and I think another part of it, (which it has not given enough attention to in my opinion), is the health-seeking behavior and risk-taking behavior in some minority subgroups of the population as it relates to their knowledge base about the importance of adopting certain habits and avoiding certain risks [ ]to that extent, we already have data collected extensively on African-American communities corroborating the notion that vitamin D levels are indeed low in the majority of that population, but it does not mean by extrapolation that the prevalence of COVID-19 is higher for that reason or that the morbidity and mortality is higher for that reason, but is certainly, if that turns out to be the case, it is something that can easily be remedied by taking adequate doses of supplemental vitamin D and spending adequate time outside getting abundant sunlight for a limited period of time Both children and adults with Cystic fibrosis seem to be protected [ ]there is an interesting immunologic question here