Many of these individuals have similar stories of battling a confusing new condition while navigating an ill-equipped bureaucracy as a person of colour.
NEW YORK, September 23rd, 2022 (Xinhua) — Having long COVID-19 can be nightmarish for anyone, but gender and ethnicity have made it particularly difficult for people of colour in the United States to convince doctors their symptoms are real – reported Scientific American – on Thursday.
“I was seeing largely white male doctors, and a young Latina presenting to the emergency room made it very easy to psychopathologize my symptoms and dismiss me,” Angela Vázquez, a Los Angeles resident with long COVID-19 symptoms – was quoted as saying.
Today Vázquez is President of Body Politic – an organization that advocates for people with long COVID-19 and offers them an online support group.
Many of these individuals – Vázquez said – have similar stories of battling a confusing new condition while navigating an ill-equipped bureaucracy as a person of colour.
“To the extent that people are dealing with long COVID-19 – people of colour are going to face the same inequities they face in terms of accessing health care generally, in terms of potential treatments for long COVID-19,” said Samantha Artiga, Vice President and Director of the Racial Equity and Health Policy Programme at Kaiser Family Foundation.
Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia
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