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* '''PBEM (Portland Bureau of Emergency Management):''' The City of Portland’s lead bureau for disaster response. | * '''PBEM (Portland Bureau of Emergency Management):''' The City of Portland’s lead bureau for disaster response. | ||
* '''PMP (Portland Mask Project):''' A project of the ICRT staffed and run by volunteers to produce masks for community partner organizations during the pandemic. | * '''PMP (Portland Mask Project):''' A project of the ICRT staffed and run by volunteers to produce masks for community partner organizations during the pandemic. | ||
* '''VAP (Vaccine Access Project):''' A project of the ICRT staffed and run by volunteers to arrange vaccinations for elderly and homebound | * '''VAP (Vaccine Access Project):''' A project of the ICRT staffed and run by volunteers to arrange vaccinations for elderly and homebound seniors. | ||
== | === COVID-19 and Health Equity === | ||
The Centers for Disease Control confirmed the first case of SARS-CoV-2 infection, known as COVID-19, in the United States on January 21, 2020. At the time of this writing on June 1, 2022, COVID-19 has since resulted in 131,000 infection cases, 5,914 hospitalizations, and 1,219 deaths in Multnomah County. Though the pandemic continues, the City of Portland’s Emergency Coordination Center (ECC) activated only during the acute pandemic phase from March 9, 2020, to September 30, 2021; a total of 18 months and 21 days. | |||
The scale of the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of fear it spreads, disruption it causes, and lives it takes has not been seen in Portland on such a scale since the “Spanish Flu” pandemic in 1918. Despite COVID-19’s novelties the pandemic conforms to at least one predictable quality shared with nearly all disasters: historically underserved communities experience disproportionate impacts. The pandemic causes immigrants and non-English speakers, BIPOC communities, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and persons living in poverty more death, hospitalizations, unemployment, and suffering in Oregon than other demographic segments. | |||
Most factors causing disproportionalities in disaster outcomes are upstream of disaster preparedness and response work. Racism, ableism, and classism could serve as broad terms that begin to point to the disparities resulting in populations becoming marginalized during and after a disaster in the first place. | |||
Those upstream factors are beyond the scope of this report. Nonetheless, those factors should always shape how government responds in a disaster. That notion is in line with guidance from the Oregon Health Authority concerning the promotion of health equity. Their guidance states: | |||
''Oregon will have established a health system that creates health equity when all people can reach their full health potential and well-being and are not disadvantaged by their race, ethnicity, language, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, social class, intersections among these communities or identities, or other socially determined circumstances.'' | |||
----[i] ''New numbers show COVID-19 damage to communities of color; leaders call for better data collection.'' (2020, May 1). Multnomah County. Retrieved June 1, 2022, from <nowiki>https://www.multco.us/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/news/new-numbers-show-covid-19-damage-communities-color-leaders-call</nowiki> | |||
[ii] Gould, E., & Wilson, V. (2020, June). ''Black workers face two of the most lethal preexisting conditions for coronavirus—racism and economic inequality.'' Economic Policy Institute. <nowiki>https://www.epi.org/publication/black-workers-covid/#:~:text=While%20unemployment%20skyrocketed%20for%20Black,and%20gender%2C%20February%E2%80%93April%202020</nowiki> | |||
[iii] Graph taken from Burns, J. (2021, March 18). ''Was Oregon’s COVID-19 pivot enough to address racial inequities?'' Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved June 1, 2022, from <nowiki>https://www.opb.org/article/2021/03/18/was-oregons-covid-19-pivot-enough-to-address-racial-inequities/</nowiki> | |||
----[i] ''Regional COVID-19 data dashboard.'' (2020, March 30). Multnomah County. Retrieved June 1, 2022, from <nowiki>https://www.multco.us/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/regional-covid-19-data-dashboard</nowiki> | |||
[ii] Kenck-Crispin, D. (2020, March 24). ''A Century Ago, Portland Faced a Health Crisis That Now Sounds Eerily Familiar.'' Willamette Week. Retrieved June 1, 2022, from <nowiki>https://www.wweek.com/culture/2020/03/24/a-century-ago-portland-faced-a-health-crisis-that-now-sounds-eerily-familiar/</nowiki> | |||
[iii] Davidson, T., Price, M., McCauley, J., & Ruggiero, K. (2013). Disaster Impact Across Cultural Groups: Comparison of Whites, African Americans, and Latinos. ''American Journal of Community Psychology'', 2013(Sep), 97–105. <nowiki>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4386718/</nowiki> | |||
[iv] ''People with Disabilities.'' (n.d.). Center for Disaster Philanthropy. Retrieved June 1, 2022, from <nowiki>https://disasterphilanthropy.org/resources/people-with-disabilities/#:~:text=persons%20with%20disabilities.-,Key%20Facts,higher%20than%20the%20general%20population</nowiki>. | |||
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