Black adults were four times as likely to be hospitalized compared with White adults during the height of the omicron surge.
Black adults were four times as likely to be hospitalized compared with White adults during the height of the omicron variant surge, which started in mid-December and continued through January, the report said. In January, the CDC found, hospitalization rates for Black patients reached the highest level for any racial or ethnic group since the dawn of the pandemic.
According to the report, as of Jan. 26, only 39.6 percent of Black people older than 18 had received their primary series of two Teresa Y. Smith saw evidence of the phenomenon outlined in the CDC’s report as she treated patients as an emergency physician at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn and associate dean of graduate medical education at Downstate Health Sciences University.She has felt the crush of the pandemic’s unequal impact since the pre-vaccine waves but has contended with the consequences of health disparities for much longer.
“Any sort of a virus can set off people’s underlying illnesses. Even a cold can make your diabetes or high blood pressure worse,” she said at the beginning of the omicron surge. “So even if they’re not deathly sick from covid, they still may have a jump in their glucose or not as good control of their hypertension. And so, admissions have increased because of that, but those who end up getting admitted and go to the ICU are those who are unvaccinated.
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