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2022-01-01
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DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT OF COVID-19 AMONG PREGNANT AND POSTPARTUM BLACK WOMEN IN BRAZIL THROUGH STRUCTURAL RACISM LENS
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Tai e colaboradores levantaram questões importantes sobre os possíveis fatores biomédicos e determinantes sociais que desempenham um papel nas disparidades raciais observadas nos resultados do COVID-19 nos EUA. Evidências desse impacto desproporcional também estão surgindo em grupos étnicos historicamente oprimidos no Brasil, atual epicentro mundial da pandemia. Nosso grupo está monitorando de perto um número esmagador de mortes maternas relacionadas à SARS-CoV-2 no país. As disparidades raciais entre mulheres em idade fértil no sistema de saúde têm sido amplamente descritas e já representam desafios difíceis para melhorar os resultados maternos no país. Assim, era esperado que mulheres grávidas e puérperas brasileiras negras enfrentassem desafios adicionais durante a pandemia.
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Tai and collaborators raised important questions about the potential biomedical factors and social determinants that play a role in the observed racial disparities on COVID-19 outcomes in the US. Evidence of such disproportionate impact is also arising on historically oppressed ethnic groups in Brazil, current worldwide pandemic epicenter. Our group is closely monitoring an overwhelming number of SARS-CoV-2-related maternal deaths in the country. Racial disparities among childbearing women within the healthcare system have been widely described, and already pose difficult challenges to improve maternal outcomes in the country. Thus, it was expected that Black Brazilian pregnant and postpartum women would face additional challenges during the pandemic.
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