Black History : Black people are overwhelmingly dying from coronavirus in cities across the US

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The Coronavirus Is Deadliest Where Democrats Live

The Coronavirus Is Deadliest Where Democrats Live

The staggering American death toll from the coronavirus, now approaching 100,000, has touched every part of the country, but the losses have been especially acute along its coasts, in its major cities, across the industrial Midwest, and in New York City.The devastation, in other words, has been...

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Democrats are far more likely to live in counties where the virus has ravaged the community, while Republicans are more likely to live in counties that have been relatively unscathed by the illness, though they are paying an economic price. Counties won by President Donald Trump in 2016 have reported just 27% of the virus infections and 21% of the deaths — even though 45% of Americans live in these communities, a New York Times analysis has found.


Jennifer Medina and Robert Gebeloff
The New York Times

 

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Coronavirus is a 'racial pandemic,' doctors and scholars warn

Coronavirus is a 'racial pandemic,' doctors and scholars warn

Even as President Trump and many of his allies are rushing to reopen the nation from a months-long pandemic lockdown, that pandemic continues to devastate communities of color, a raft of witnesses warned legislators on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

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Alexander Nazaryan
National Correspondent
Yahoo News

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Brazil Is Starting to Lose the Fight Against Coronavirus—and Its President Is Looking the Other Way

Brazil Is Starting to Lose the Fight Against Coronavirus—and Its President Is Looking the Other Way

Brazil's daily fatality rate is second only to that of the U.S.

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COVID-19 Has Devastated The Black Community. Here's Why And What Needs To Change

COVID-19 Has Devastated The Black Community. Here's Why And What Needs To Change.

"While I have had several family members, family friends and acquaintances who have fallen ill with and died of COVID-19, my colleagues have had none. The single obvious difference between my colleagues and me? I am Black."

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Akilah A. Jefferson Shah, M.D., MSc
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"A recent poll showed Black Americans are twice as likely to know someone who has tested positive or died from COVID-19." (Photo: rubberball via Getty Images)

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Why are black and Asian people at greater risk of coronavirus? Here's what we found

Why are black and Asian people at greater risk of coronavirus? Here's what we found

There is no single reason why COVID-19 has had a disproportionate effect on ethnic minorities, but we know that racism and socioeconomic factors both play a role.

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Further research has since echoed our findings. The Office for National Statistics has studied COVID-19 deaths using information about ethnicity from the census and death certificates.

Claire Niedzwiedz, RCUK Innovation Fellow, University of Glasgow and S Vittal Katikireddi, Senior Clinical Research Fellow & Honorary Consultant in Public Health, University of Glasgow

The Conversation

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