Study: Ineffective Blood Oxygen Readers Have Endangered Black and Latino COVID-19 Patients

Study: Ineffective Blood Oxygen Readers Have Endangered Black and Latino COVID-19 Patients
NBC News reported: Black and Latino patients experienced significant delays in obtaining life-saving COVID-19 treatments due to a popular medical device that inaccurately reads darker skin tones, according to a study released last week in JAMA Internal Medicine. The report shows that pulse oximeters, a device that clips onto a person’s fingertips and reads oxygen levels, is more likely to produce inaccurate results in Black, Latino and Asian Americans than in white patients.… Read the rest