December 25, 2020

Andrew Campbell 

Susan Moore, a 52-year-old African American physician, died on December 20 under complications from the coronavirus weeks after she claimed that a physician mistreating her and dismissed her complaints of pain repeatedly.

Dr. Moore’s mishap, a common phenomenon among African Americans, has attracted outrage and renewed pleads to justify biased medical treatment to Black patients.

She shared a video on Facebook in which she accused a doctor at Indiana University Health North Hospital (IU North) of racist treatment. She had been discharged from IU North after she filmed a video and posted on her Facebook about a White doctor mistreating her because she was Black. But she returned to a different hospital by ambulance less than 12 hours later.

    
According to an early analysis by the Brookings Institution this year, the death tolls showed that African Americans died with COVID-19 at 3.6 times the rate of white people, and Latinos at 2.5 times the rate of their white counterparts. Some health-care advocates warned that African Americans and minorities suffering from coronavirus disease receive inferior medical treatment compared to whites amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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