Oldie but goodie, where two doctors are confused why the long Covid clinic they set up is swamped with middle class white women who were never hospitalized for Covid and not all the minority patients they treated in the early days of the pandemic.
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“Many Are Suffering After Covid, but Only Some Are Getting Help”
“And yet, when it opened, the clinic was deluged with self-referrals from patients who had not been hospitalized.”
“Still, of the more than 1,200 patients seen at our clinic between April 2021 and April 2022, nearly 80 percent were white and just over 70 percent were female. In contrast, it seemed those that we cared for in the hospital, particularly in the first pandemic wave, were disproportionately Black and Hispanic men. “Looking at the data, we know we’re not seeing the patients who bore the brunt of Covid hospitalizations,” Dr. Gay told me.”
The Nature one really gets me. You have to admit though, this has long been their stance -- Nature is just the NYT version of the sensationalist gee-whiz-pseudo-science "Scientific American". They have always had an agenda -- now it's just more obvious in the aftermath of all the COVID lies that they pushed and continue to push.
This article was a response to the fact that, on the matter of COVID, they have been consistently called out by people who actually understand the science they publish better than the editors and the clutching of pearls continues.
Kind of makes you wonder how Soviet journals behaved before the fall of the wall.
This is exactly what I needed to end my day! 😹
PS, still glad I ended 2022 by finishing your book.
Oldie but goodie, where two doctors are confused why the long Covid clinic they set up is swamped with middle class white women who were never hospitalized for Covid and not all the minority patients they treated in the early days of the pandemic.
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“Many Are Suffering After Covid, but Only Some Are Getting Help”
“And yet, when it opened, the clinic was deluged with self-referrals from patients who had not been hospitalized.”
“Still, of the more than 1,200 patients seen at our clinic between April 2021 and April 2022, nearly 80 percent were white and just over 70 percent were female. In contrast, it seemed those that we cared for in the hospital, particularly in the first pandemic wave, were disproportionately Black and Hispanic men. “Looking at the data, we know we’re not seeing the patients who bore the brunt of Covid hospitalizations,” Dr. Gay told me.”
Original:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/opinion/post-covid-care.html
Non Paywalled Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220926093601/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/opinion/post-covid-care.html
The Nature one really gets me. You have to admit though, this has long been their stance -- Nature is just the NYT version of the sensationalist gee-whiz-pseudo-science "Scientific American". They have always had an agenda -- now it's just more obvious in the aftermath of all the COVID lies that they pushed and continue to push.
This article was a response to the fact that, on the matter of COVID, they have been consistently called out by people who actually understand the science they publish better than the editors and the clutching of pearls continues.
Kind of makes you wonder how Soviet journals behaved before the fall of the wall.