{"id":206462,"date":"2021-03-19T19:03:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T16:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/sane-dube-saving-black-lives-in-a-global-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2021-03-19T19:03:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T16:03:13","slug":"sane-dube-saving-black-lives-in-a-global-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sane-dube-saving-black-lives-in-a-global-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"#San\u00e9 Dube: Saving Black lives in a global pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#San\u00e9 Dube: Saving Black lives in a global pandemic<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The pandemic has hurt some far more than others. San\u00e9 Dube made sure this devastating inequality wasn\u2019t ignored.\n <\/div>\n
\n Like many people, San\u00e9 Dube really started to pay attention to the spread of a new virus in late February 2020, when the wave of infections hit Europe. By March, death rates there skyrocketed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a very clear memory of an image out of Italy\u2014coffins lined up,\u201d says Dube, manager of population health and social<\/a> medicine at the University Health Network in Toronto.<\/p>\n

At the time, Dube was the policy lead focusing on Black health at the Alliance for Healthier Communities, a network of community health centres in Ontario. It hit her that this virus would be devastating\u2014and that \u201csome people would hurt more than others.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the first impacts Dube saw was an increase in overdoses as people lost access to supports such as supervised injection sites. She was also paying close attention to reports from the U.K. and the U.S. that showed Black and other racialized groups of people were being hospitalized and dying at higher rates as a result of COVID-19 compared to the rest of the population.<\/p>\n

While there was little to no collection of race-based data across the country at the beginning of the pandemic, early signs showed Black communities were also being impacted disproportionately here. Dube notes the Black community in Canada isn\u2019t a monolith but there is a common factor\u2014anti-Blackness has real negative impacts on people\u2019s lives. In April, Dube and other community leaders urged governments to pay attention to how existing racial disparities in income, housing and health outcomes were affecting the Black community during the pandemic, writing in a statement: \u201cCOVID-19 does not flatten these disparities; it amplifies them.\u201d<\/p>\n

In May, the death of Leonard Rodriques, a personal support worker at an assisted living centre in Toronto, shook Dube. She spoke with his wife, who told her the 61-year-old was buying his own PPE. He became sick after there was a COVID case at his workplace, and when his family took him to the hospital, he was sent home within hours. He died two days later.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was heartbreaking to me. It was telling a bigger story about the way that Black people are seen as disposable,\u201d says Dube. \u201cYou work so hard, you care for people, you contribute, but at the end of the day, there is no care for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The push by Dube and other community leaders, researchers and health practitioners has seen results: by June, Ontario announced it would collect race-based health data. And Toronto launched a plan in February to support Black residents, who have experienced the highest incidence of COVID cases: 26 per cent of cases, despite making up nine per cent of the population. Supports include access to mental health support and community-based testing.<\/p>\n

The next big challenge Dube sees is equitable access to vaccines, and despite how long this year has felt, working with other Black leaders and seeing change happ<\/a>en energizes her.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy commitment is to my people,\u201d says Dube. \u201cMy commitment is to Black life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

This profile appeared in the April 2021 issue of\u00a0<\/em>Maclean\u2019s, where we\u00a0gave our magazine over to a 22,000-word special report, \u201cYear One: The untold story of the pandemic in Canada.\u201d Sign up to read that whole story, and\u00a0learn why we did it.<\/em><\/p>\n

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