Abstract
A social gradient in mortality and morbidity exists within countries owing to structural inequalities. Disease and health are not neutral to social, political, and economic relations, but they interact, and the human body is the stage on which these social contradictions are played out.
Highlights
Across the United States, African Americans are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
For a vast majority of African Americans, everyday life is an extremely stressful experience owing to institutionalized racism, which reflects on their health status
The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmingly affected the African American population in the United States, but the link between deep-seated social structural conditions and the rapid spread of the pandemic suggests that diseases transmit in communities in which the human host is left vulnerable
Summary
Across the United States, African Americans are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The African American health disadvantage is a reflection of these various structural inequalities that have endured (3). For maternal mortality, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, African American mothers fared the worst, dying 2.5 times more often than white American mothers (37.1 vs 14.7 deaths per 100,000 live births).
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