Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson, 1100 Eastlake Avenue, E3-300, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Physiology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, 651 Ilalo Street, BSB-222K, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2022 Jun;36(2):295-308. doi: 10.1016/j.idc.2022.01.009. Epub 2022 Feb 1.
The violence and victimization brought by colonization and slavery and justified for over a century by race-based science have resulted in enduring inequities for black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) across the United States. This is particularly true if BIPOC individuals have other intersecting devalued identities. We highlight how such longstanding inequities paved the way for the disproportionate burdens of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among the BIPOC populations across the country and provide recommendations on how to improve COVID-19 mitigation strategies with the goal of eliminating disparities.
殖民主义和奴隶制带来的暴力和受害,以及一个多世纪以来以种族为基础的科学为其辩护,导致美国黑人和土著以及有色人种(BIPOC)一直处于不平等地位。如果 BIPOC 个人还有其他相互交织的被贬低的身份,情况尤其如此。我们强调了这种长期存在的不平等是如何为全国 BIPOC 人群中 2019 年冠状病毒病(COVID-19)不成比例的负担铺平道路的,并就如何改进 COVID-19 缓解策略提出建议,以期消除差异。