Kim Perales<p>24 years into the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/21C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>21C</span></a> & investigative journalists reveal <a href="https://toad.social/tags/systemicracism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systemicracism</span></a>, that Republicans deny:</p><p>~14K Black kidney transplant candidates moved up the waitlist after race was eliminated from the candidate criteria.</p><p>To calculate a person's location on the waitlist, an algorithm uses metrics: kidney function, age, sex, body weight & race. The inclusion of race was based on outdated assumptions that Black patients had differences in kidney function compared to other grps.<br> <a href="https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/health-equity/14-280-black-patients-moved-up-transplant-waitlist-after-race-scrubbed-from-criteria.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">beckershospitalreview.com/heal</span><span class="invisible">th-equity/14-280-black-patients-moved-up-transplant-waitlist-after-race-scrubbed-from-criteria.html</span></a></p>