"The United States made the mistake of focusing on ethnic differences in medicine for many years
," warns Professor Marco Alifano, head of the thoracic surgery department at Cochin hospital in Paris.
They are now backtracking and we must take advantage of this lesson. ”
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In fact, many studies identifying links between ethnicity and the risk of developing a pathology are now questioned and reassessed by integrating, rather than this notion of ethnicity, socio-economic groups and ease of access to care that turns out to be more relevant.
In a study published last August in
Jamaica
, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explained that if Covid-19 has been shown to be more serious in patients from ethnic minorities, it is not for genetic reasons but because they have suffered social and medical discrimination for many years.
Hazardous assumptions
"Ethnicity, taken into account in
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