{"id":12846,"date":"2020-07-16T22:18:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imph.org\/?p=12846"},"modified":"2021-02-24T17:19:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:19:19","slug":"regional-data-shows-disproportionate-impact-of-covid-19-on-black-sc-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imph.org\/regional-data-shows-disproportionate-impact-of-covid-19-on-black-sc-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional data shows disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black SC community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abccolumbia.com\/2020\/07\/16\/regional-data-shows-disproportionate-impact-of-covid-19-on-black-sc-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the Segment<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ABC Columbia recently covered the disproportionate death rates of African Americans due to COVID-19 using IMPH\u2019s data brief and interviewed Executive Director, Maya Pack:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) released a data brief with the South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health (IMPH) that examines the disproportionate death rates of African Americans due to COVID-19.<br>The pandemic has unveiled inequities in communities throughout the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven though Black people comprise 27% of the state\u2019s population, they\u2019re comprising 45% of the deaths. And so when you think about that, there\u2019s a huge disparity between the Black and white experience in our state and across the nation when it comes to the pandemic,\u201d said Maya Pack, Executive Director of IMPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data brief shows the disparities amongst the state\u2019s regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen we looked at the regional data, we see that the theme of a disparate impact on the Black population is pervasive throughout the state. But we do see slight differences in how severe the inequities are,\u201d said Pack.<br>The Pee Dee region has been the most severe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the Pee Dee, the Black population has a rate of death due to COVID that\u2019s 2.4 times the rate of the white community. And so, we see across our state this theme occurring,\u201d said Pack.<br>Knowing this information can help direct resources to prevent the virus. As the numbers of positive cases continue to rise, so do the death rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt could help local communities decide how they should approach addressing vulnerable populations during this crisis, and where to pinpoint additional testing opportunities,\u201d said Pack. \u201cThese numbers are all going to change over time, and we\u2019ll be continuing to do reporting and data analysis on all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview by Maria Szatkowski <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abccolumbia.com\/2020\/07\/16\/regional-data-shows-disproportionate-impact-of-covid-19-on-black-sc-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abccolumbia.com\/2020\/07\/16\/regional-data-shows-disproportionate-impact-of-covid-19-on-black-sc-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the Segment<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>ABC Columbia recently covered the disproportionate death rates of African Americans due to COVID-19 using IMPH\u2019s data brief and interviewed Executive Director, Maya Pack:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[40],"work-type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12846"},{"taxonomy":"work-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work-type?post=12846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}