Can you explain further? I don’t see anywhere the article could be interpreted to say 1000:1. It says that 1000 more native people (total) would have been accepted if acceptance rates were equal.
Compared with their total number of deaths from liver disease, White people gain a spot on the transplant list almost three times more often than Native Americans, the data shows. Had transplant rates been equal, nearly 1,000 additional Native people would have received liver transplants between 2018 and 2021.
It drills further into the numbers:
For every 100 Asian people who died from liver disease, approximately 68 patients were accepted for a transplant from 2018 to 2021. Among White people, 26 patients were accepted; among Black people, it was 23. (Latinos, who are assigned to various racial groups in the data, are excluded from this analysis.)
Among Indigenous people, just nine patients were accepted for a transplant in that period for every 100 who died from liver disease.
By that, it looks like the acceptance rate of Caucasians is about 3x that of native Americans, and it looks like Asians are accepted at 2.6x the rate of Caucasians and 7.6x the rate of native American people.