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cord-255064-u95pxed7	Taylor, Kishana	mSphere of Influence: That’s Racist—COVID-19, Biological Determinism, and the Limits of Hypotheses	2020-09-30		.txt	text/plain	1134	60	47	In this mSphere of Influence article, she reflects on the personal impact of "Racial health disparities and COVID-19 – caution and context" by Merlin Chowkwanyun and Adolph L. I argue that hypothesis-driven data are flawed in additional ways, especially when it comes to infectious disease microbiology and health disparities research. From a perspective that does not consider the social determinants of health on a macroscale, it may seem that race is the underlying factor between differences in disease rates. So when we see data that say Black people have higher rates of COVID-19, we have to first consider what role institutional and structural racism have in shaping the environments in which they live and work. With Black In Microbiology Week, we want to bring awareness to how the surface level analysis of infectious disease health disparities data often leads to racist hypotheses.	./cache/cord-255064-u95pxed7.txt	./txt/cord-255064-u95pxed7.txt