ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. – New studies show COVID-19 has affected Native American communities even more than previously thought.
A study recently published by the University of New Mexico shows, for the first time, that there were a disproportionately higher number of tragic consequences, even among Native Americans who did not have pre-existing conditions, meaning that COVID-19 was more injured than in a different way than in a different way than healthy Native Americans. This made other races and ethnicities.
Of the groups studied, Native Americans were more than three times more likely to suffer severe illness and more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19.
Researchers Dr. D. J. Perkins and Dr. Ivy Hurwitz of UNM’s Center for Global Health said they were the first to detect how many Native Americans needed to be hospitalized.
“It’s a very transparent signal to the hospital from the beginning and persisted throughout the process,” said Perkins, the center’s director. “There is a disproportionate point compared to the state population of hospitalized American Indians. “
Their goal was not to examine Native Americans, but to understand what could cause more severe symptoms in a person.
They studied all patients hospitalized through UNM since the beginning of the pandemic.
The effects show that the immune systems of healthy Native Americans, differently, responded poorly to COVID-19.
“How we treat it immunologically determines how well we control the infection,” Perkins said.
Unfortunately, the new shows similarities to how indigenous communities have responded to beyond disease.
“The indigenous population that has suffered from tuberculosis and H1N1 has suffered disproportionately from the rest of the population,” Hurwitz said.
These researchers say it is imperative to get medical attention quickly.
“This tells us that interventions are important. Early intervention and appropriate clinical management,” Perkins said.
With studies like this, the hope is that there will possibly be a greater reaction to a fatal virus in the long term.
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