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The pandemic coronavirus has affected people of all ages, all the genders, but he struck some more difficult groups than others. Immunocomproductive persons, older or having breathing difficulties - among other criteria - arehigher risk for serious cases. And these people at high risk of coronavirus, researchers determined that18.2 million are uninsured or subsured.

A recent study published in theJournal of General Internal Medicine by researchers from Harvard Medical School and Cuny Hunter College found that the amount of group adults deemed at high risk of CVIV-19 by disease control centers (CDC) which are alsosubservitor or uninsured at all greatly exceeded previous estimates. (An analysis cited by the study increased only 5.7 million insured.) The study defines individuals with "insufficient assurance" as insurance, but "jumping a doctor's visit during the course of the last year because of the cost. "

Researchers also discovered severe disparities in the amount of high-risk adults subsured or uninsured in terms of location, income level and race, demonstrating how problems of inequality in the American health system are exacerbated by the pandemic. "Blacks, Native Americans, lower-income individuals of all races / ethnic groups, and those residing in rural areas or in states that had not increased Medicaid were doubly disadvantaged," says the study. "They were both more likely to be at high risk of Graves Covid-19 and lack adequate coverage." The study also determined that, compared to the whites, "blacks were 42% and Native Americans of 90% more likely to remain at risk of severe CIVID-19 and high-risk people from these racial groups were 51 % and 53% more have insufficient coverage compared to high-risk whites. "

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This study proves what health workers have already seen - that the pandemic is disproportionately influenced minority and low-income communities. "The pandemic is lying down the mortalInequality of American society and American health care ", the main author of the studyAdam GaffneyThe pulmonary care physician and criticism at Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, said in a statement. "Our ICU has been flooded with poor and minority patients; having Covid-19 is quite scary without worrying about not being bankrupt by medical invoices."

As health insurance is mainly related to employment in this country, increasing unemployment numbers mean more uninsured Americans. While the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) didFederal Funds available In order for the insured in insufficiently tested and processed for Coronavirus, the American Medical Association (AMA) asks the federal government to do more, including by providing employers' assistance to maintain the benefits of employee health, even They lost revenue. And for more information on how Covid-19 affects different demographic data, here isThe shocking reason older men are at an even higher risk of coronavirus.