George Floyd’s Covid-19 Diagnosis Is a Reminder That Racist Systems Informed and Ended His Life

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In the days since George Floyd’s murder, details released from pathologists have helped provide a fuller context for his death. Initially, a state-sponsored autopsy was inconclusive, attributing blame of Floyd’s death to underlying health issues, while an independent autopsy found otherwise. Now, Dr. Andrew M. Baker, Chief Medical Examiner of Hennepin County, has concluded his full autopsy of George Floyd providing another detail: Floyd tested positive for Covid-19.

that black people have been infected and hospitalized at a higher rate than white or Latinx people and in the state of New York, the epicenter of the virus,

“death rates among Black/African American persons and Hispanic/Latino persons that were substantially higher than that of white or Asian persons.” Though the CDC doesn’t assign cause to the death rate, the organization plainly lays out how these statistics correlate to institutional racism. Black Americans and other Americans of color are more likely to live in underfunded and underrepresented areas with limited access to healthcare, grocery stores, or educational information. They are also more likely to live in “multigenerational households,” making it easier to spread disease, especially when one or more person in the home is asymptomatic. They are also more likely to have jobs that require leaving home, making it easier to contract the virus.

ally diverse gathering of people being tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed by police officers, methods that specifically attack the respiratory system. And Covid-19, a virus that affects the respiratory system, impacts those with existing heart disease, diabetes, and lung disease–a discrepancy that also correlates with race. Black and Indigenous

 

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Your article is a tad misleading. Can you clarify? George Floyd's death was conclusively ruled a homicide in the latest report from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner. And in your own article it says a covid diagnosis had nothing to do with his death.

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