Being A Corona Virus Patient in the USA.
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Being A Corona Virus Patient in the USA.
There is a direct non-inverse relationship existing between the amount of money that one has and the quality of healthcare that one receives. This ideology is also very, much evident in the USA, where wealth and health directly correlate. With the daily increment in coronavirus cases globally, the US has been in the limelight regarding the number of coronavirus cases reported. Every day, more than a hundred families all across the state, have to say their goodbyes to at least one of their family members who succumb to this novel virus. I ought to command all the healthcare workers not only in the USA but across the globe who have worked tirelessly, sometimes tearless to ensure that all the patients receive the maximum possible care they can get after the contraction of this virus. I, however, feel that the high death toll could have been prevented suppose the existence of health disparities was not a connotation that majority of the USA citizens were familiar with and strived to demonstrate its nature.
Your chances of survival once infected with Coronavirus all depend on one’s ability to afford life in general in the USA. Another determining factor is the colour of your skin once the virus comes knocking. Let’s look at the numbers, Covid-19 has killed African -Americans at a higher rate than any other group, especially in the south. In Louisiana alone, the black deaths have accounted to about seventy per cent of all the total deaths caused by Covid-19. Therefore, being a black Coronavirus patient in a way depicts that one is more likely to die than a white citizen who also suffers from Coronavirus. Being the patient is devastating for anyone, the constant fear of death, constant excruciating pain as well as the melancholy and agony caused to the rest of the family members.
The quality of care between a patient in a private hospital and one in the hospital located in the suburbs is very different. This is as a result of the shortage of enough primary care doctors in poor neighbourhoods. All residents, therefore, suspecting to be infected with the novel virus will have to wait for the illness to finish incubation and start displaying severe symptoms to seek the necessary medical care. In the process, this patient will have come into close contact with a lot of people all being potential carriers of the virus as well vary (Butler, 2020).
Additionally, there is a very high probability that affluent people are in a much better position of receiving a better prescription package than the impoverished population. As a result, the quality of patient care between these two individuals will highly vary. No one likes being sick, and no one has to die as a result of the quality of healthcare received upon being diagnosed with this killer virus. Her is, therefore, need to break the pattern involving the existence of health disparities occurring as a result of financial ability and race in all parts of the sates. Every sick patient needs to have a realistic sense of hope pf recovery, and this will be majorly determined by the quality of healthcare offered to each individual (Bouie, 2020).
REFERENCES
Bouie, J. (2020, April 14). Why Coronavirus is killing African-Americans more than others. The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-racism-african-americans.html
Butler, K. (2020, February 7). Significant outbreaks like the Coronavirus do discriminate: Against the poor and most needy. Mother Jones. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/02/these-groups-could-suffer-the-most-in-a-us-coronavirus-outbreak/