November 2020
equal opportunity employment journal
Page 17
TURNING ANGER INTO ACTION:
Minority Students Analyze COVID Data on Racial Disparities As By Esther Landhuis
the coronavirus tive developed by San Francisco swept into Detroit researchers and funded by the this spring, Wayne National Institutes of Health, State University junior Skye Taylor will look at that question Taylor noticed something strikand other effects of the pandemic. ing. On social media, many of She’s one of 70 participants from her fellow Black classmates who backgrounds underrepresented in live or grew up in the city were science who are learning basic “posting about death, like, ‘Oh, coding and data analysis methI lost this family member to ods to explore disparity issues. COVID-19,’” said Taylor. Data to address racial discrepThe picture was different in ancies in care and outcomes has Beverly Hills, a mostly white been spotty during the pandemic, suburb 20 miles away. “People and it isn’t available for most I went to high school with aren’t of these students’ communities, posting anything like that,” which disproportionately bear Taylor said. “They’re doing the brunt of the virus. The particwell, their family is doing OK. ipants are “asking questions from And even the ones whose family a perspective that we desperately (Ada Yokota/Getty Images) need, because their voices aren’t members have caught it, they’re still alive.” really there in the scientific community,” said Alison Gammie, who How do COVID-19 infection rates and outcomes differ between these directs the division of training, workforce development and diversity at ZIP codes? she wondered. How do their hospitals and other resources the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. compare? This summer, as part of an eight-week research collaboraScientists from Black, Hispanic, Native American and other
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