U.S. study: Indigenous people in the United States have 2 to 3 times the death rate of white people in hospital

　　American study: Affected by racial discrimination and other factors, the death rate of new crown hospitalization in the United States is 2 to 3 times that of white people

　　Overseas Network, April 3. A new study finds that American Indians and Alaska Natives have two to three times the hospitalization death rate of the new crown than whites, even though they are younger and have lower rates.

Experts point out that it is a long history of discrimination and marginalization that have contributed to the lack of timely access to medical services for Native Americans, which has resulted in a higher death rate in hospitalization for the new crown than other races.

　　The study was published March 30 in JAMA Network Open, a journal of the American Medical Association.

The researchers studied 18,731 COVID-19 patients admitted to 103 state hospitals between March 1 and December 31, 2020. The median age of the patients was 66 years, 48.7% were white, and 1.2% were American Indian or Alaska Native, and Native patients were significantly younger than their white counterparts.

Overall, the data showed that white patients had a 77% lower risk of in-hospital death than Aboriginal patients; when symptoms indicated a lower risk of death or a risk index of 0, the odds of in-hospital death were 0.10 for Aboriginal patients and 0.04 for white patients; With an index of 16 or higher, the odds of in-hospital death were 0.69 for Aboriginal patients and 0.25 for white patients.

　　In the report, the researchers noted that Native Americans have long suffered from discrimination, marginalization, inability to see physicians for appointments, and severe underfunding of the Indian Health Service (IHS), which is widely considered to be the source of Native American access to healthcare. obstacles.

Experts at IHS also said poverty, lack of running water and basic utilities, and lack of access to healthy food and online health consultations may also be responsible for the higher death rate among Aboriginal people.

"To improve the health of Indigenous peoples, the United States must adopt a comprehensive approach to addressing the effects of racial inequity in health care, and intensify research into the clinical and physiological responses of this population to disease," the researchers wrote. )