We. Are. Peoria (Area)

RPlant wrote: ↑Sat Aug 14, 2021 2:01 pm Hate to break this to you, but most of this current "America" is/was a rogue British colony.

I guess we now know who the Tory would have been.

RPlant wrote: ↑Sat Aug 14, 2021 2:01 pm Being the only western culture left in the world without socialized medicine, my point stands regardless of how you'd like to duck away from that fact.

You know full well there are advantages AND disadvantages to free market AND socialized healthcare. If it was so bad here, you wouldn't have doctors and patients coming from all over the world to work and be treated here. Neither system is even close to perfect. On paper, I believe the best system would be single payer, but then you have a bunch of worthless, unelected bureaucrats running things which would likely make it a failure as well. The only thing I know for sure is that as a nation, we are extremely unhealthy, mostly due to diet. If we could fix that, then it wouldn't matter what system we have.

Chicago’s Black, Latino communities face the brunt of latest, Delta-fueled COVID surge
Some parts of the city, especially low-income communities of color where vaccination rates are low, are getting hit hard.

By Brett Chase and Elvia Malagón Aug 13, 2021, 5:45am CDT

This month, the [St. Bernard’s Hospital, in Chicago’s South Side] already has treated 20 people diagnosed with the virus. None of the patients over the past two months were vaccinated. Two died.

City officials tout the low number of hospitalizations even as the number of COVID cases has risen sharply in recent weeks. But some areas, especially low-income communities of color where vaccination rates are low, are getting hit hard. From the South Side to the West Side, the Delta variant of the virus — about twice as contagious as earlier forms — is disproportionately striking Black and Latino communities.

Over the past month, Black Chicagoans made up 26% of the city’s total number of COVID cases, yet they accounted for 56% of hospitalizations and 65% of deaths, according to the city’s figures.

Combined, Blacks and Latinos account for 84% of the recent deaths and nearly three-quarters of all hospitalizations.

This continues to be a problem in zip codes with higher percentages of Black residents, even here in Peoria:
“In February, statistics from the Illinois Department of Public Health showed that 82.8% of total doses given in Peoria County had gone to white recipients, despite only 69.4% of the population being white. Meanwhile, Black residents, who make up 18.8% of the county's population, had received only 7.7% of doses.

However, as of this week in Peoria County, white recipients represented 75.5% of total doses, while Black residents had received 11.2% of doses. Though the population-to-vaccination ratio remains uneven, the percentages have drawn closer through work by multiple agencies that has drawn praise from the head of Peoria's NAACP chapter.

But according to IDPH data, there is still a wide disparity of vaccination rates by ZIP code in Peoria. The 61603 ZIP code in the city's North Valley and East Bluff has a one-dose vaccine rate of just 35.9%. South Peoria's 61605 ZIP code has a one-dose rate of just 29.2%. Both have a higher percentage of Black residents than other parts of the city, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

Meanwhile, on the north side of Peoria, ZIP codes 61614 and 61615 have respective one-dose rates of 59.6% and 65.8%. ”

More here: https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/coron ... 661339001/