CoronaVirus

ZCanadian · 04-20-2020, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by FL 4Motion

Are Canucks healthier overall than us Americans? Ie, fewer preexisting conditions per capita. Less chronic stress, heart disease, obesity etc? Better access to healthcare (just stepped on a land mine with that one

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Maybe I should just start ending my sentences with eh, and increase my daily dose of maple syrup.

Couldn't hurt, EH?

Health care access for sure. The rest, not as much as we'd like to believe up here, if I'm being honest. Especially not in our indigenous population.

It could be that certain ethnic groups that feature more predominantly in the US are more susceptible, or perhaps just that that their poor outcomes are related to other socio-economic factors. Really hard to say. Certainly, population density appears to be a factor with this disease, but we have a few large metropolitan areas (of a million or more, densely packed), and a large Chinese diaspora in Vancouver (and Toronto) as well as a major student population from there, many of whom travel home for things like our Christmas break or their Lunar New Year. Also, we have a large Iranian community (most of the people on that downed airliner were headed to Canada), and Iran was the second nation to be hard hit in this crisis.

And I'm not saying that we are immune or not going to feel the effects - just that our failure to stop inbound flights or screen incoming passengers did not seem to cost as many lives as one might have imagined. Merely an observation.

FL 4Motion · 04-20-2020, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ZCanadian

Couldn't hurt, EH?

Health care access for sure. The rest, not as much as we'd like to believe up here, if I'm being honest. Especially not in our indigenous population.

It could be that certain ethnic groups that feature more predominantly in the US are more susceptible, or perhaps just that that their poor outcomes are related to other socio-economic factors. Really hard to say. Certainly, population density appears to be a factor with this disease, but we have a few large metropolitan areas (of a million or more, densely packed), and a large Chinese diaspora in Vancouver (and Toronto) as well as a major student population from there, many of whom travel home for things like our Christmas break or their Lunar New Year. Also, we have a large Iranian community (most of the people on that downed airliner were headed to Canada), and Iran was the second nation to be hard hit in this crisis.

And I'm not saying that we are immune or not going to feel the effects - just that our failure to stop inbound flights or screen incoming passengers did not seem to cost as many lives as one might have imagined. Merely an observation.

I don’t think at this point you can pinpoint a particular racial or ethnic group and say the virus is more deadly or serious simply based on that, it’s very hard to separate poor health outcomes based on race or ethnicity while controlling for poor socioeconomic issues which disproportionately affect certain groups. These groups also tend to be clustered in population dense areas where transmission is easier.

Eh?