(CNN Español) – The United States has added up to 500,000 coronavirus deaths, a figure that no other country has taken into account.
In this episode, Dr. Elmer Huerta analyzes why, in the United States, there is a higher mortality rate than other countries, which will reduce the number of injuries.
También, we evaluate whether socio-economic and racial conditions are an important factor in this issue.
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Hello, soja el Dr. Elmer Huerta and this is his diary dose of information about the new coronavirus. Information that we hope will be useful to take care of his health and that of his family.
United States is on the cusp of becoming the first country to reach the mid-millions of deaths caused by covid-19 in the world.
Mortality rate in United States
The diary mortality rate for covid-19 in the United States, in December 2020, was equivalent to that every day the passengers of 15 Airbus 320 with 150 passengers each had one.
Hoy, we will see his most important social factors that podrian influences in his high death toll.
The term mortality in public health refers to the number of deaths by a nurse in a short period of time and in a determined geographical location. With these dates it is said that, in one year, production will increase the number of deaths in the fourth quarter.
Debate that not all countries have the same number of residents and with the goal of being able to compare the number of deaths, the specialists correct the dates, refer to the population number and calculate the mortality rate per 100,000 residents.
For example, the United States, with more than 500,000 deaths and the world’s absolute number, has 152 deaths for every 100,000 inhabitants, a lower mortality rate than Belgium, England, Italy, Portugal and other countries.
Dicho so, it is important to be able to compare the mortality rates of different countries, it is important to analyze the reason for how many deaths were produced in the United States.
By what EE.UU. register dead deaths by covid-19?
There are many studios that are willing to respond to this question, and the majority will have social, economic, racial and access to health.
For example, a study at the University of California, San Diego, hecho to know if the “essential” workers -which in its majority are immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities- tienen mayor riesgo de muerte por covid-19, encontro que los Agricultural workers have the unique risks of contracting covid-19 and dying for their illness.
The study concludes that this powder mortality powder is statistically associated with certain determinants of social health, such as not being able to speak English and live in poverty.
In another mathematics simulation study, conducted by Harvard University investigators, it was reported that the deaths due to covid-19 occurred in a manner disproportionately elevated among racial and ethnic minorities, and in areas with greater concentration
The investigators found huge social differences in covid-19 mortality.
For example, adults living in high-altitude areas are less likely to live in the middle of the country, representing the thirds of deaths by covid-19.
In the same way, the people who do not finish the secondary education will represent approximately 1 in every 4 deaths, while the veterans will only represent one in every 5 deaths.
The minorities, the most deadly coronavirus deaths in the country
The authors conclude that the company should guarantee adequate access to health systems for these groups and that public health means should be specifically directed at these groups.
Another interesting Canadian prepublication demonstrates that condoms have higher proportions of Republican votes, excessive alcoholic beverages, nines that vivian and hogares with a single father, with more adults without medical care, with more racial minorities, with more Ambient contamination and residential segregation between whites and non-whites, tuvieron death rates by covid-19 more elevated.
In summary, covid-19, which since October 2020, has been converted into the third cause of death in the United States for persons aged 45 to 84 years and the second cause of death for major people of 85 years, has very socio-economic highs fuertes, I believe that the pandemic has not hated the socio-economic inequalities of the lands it has passed.
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