African Americans and COVID-19: Part IV (15 Articles)

COVID-19 is Killing Black People Unequally—Don’t Be Surprised (Wired, 5/2/20)

https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-coronavirus-racial-disparities/

Coronavirus Lawsuit Challenges Alabama Voting Rules During Pandemic (10 News Alabama, 5/2/20)

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/lawsuit-challenges-alabama-voting-rules-during-pandemic/67-c30ee84b-8b48-4681-b737-e3d02e17c74b

COVID Exposes How Blacks Are in Danger in Medical Facilities: Why Family Advocates Are Needed (Charleston Chronicle, 5/2/20)

https://www.charlestonchronicle.net/2020/05/02/covid-exposes-how-blacks-are-in-danger-in-medical-facilities-why-family-advocates-are-needed/

African Americas in Georgia Wary of Returning to Work As Community Struggles with Impact of COVID-19 (CBS News, 5/2/20)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/georgia-covid-african-american-1.5552910

A Bioethicist on Why Reopening States Will Kill More Black People (Vox, 5/1/20)

https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/5/1/21242911/black-americans-coronavirus-opening-states

Newly Released Data Suggest “Alarming” Racial Disparity Among Maine’s COVID-19 Cases (Portland (Maine) Press Herald, 5/1/20)

https://www.pressherald.com/2020/04/30/new-data-suggest-racial-inequity-in-maines-covid-19-cases/#

COVID-19 and the Color Line (Boston Review, 5/1/20)

http://bostonreview.net/race/colin-gordon-walter-johnson-jason-q-purnell-jamala-rogers-covid-19-and-color-line

The Coronavirus Disproportionately Affects Latinos and Blacks in Denver, But Experts Aren’t Sure Why (Denverette, 5/1/20)

https://denverite.com/2020/05/01/the-coronavirus-disproportionately-affects-latinos-and-blacks-in-denver-but-experts-arent-sure-why/

Coronavirus in Ohio: Making African Americans Aware of Health Risks As Local Cases Rise (Cincinnati Enquirer, 5/1/20)

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/05/01/coronavirus-cincinnati-ohio-making-african-americans-more-aware-risks/3055740001/

As Georgia Reopens, Virus Study Shows African Americans May Bear the Brunt (NYT, 4/30/20)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/health/coronavirus-georgia-african-americans.html

African Americans Hit Harder by Coronavirus Due to Underlying Health Conditions (WYFF4, 4/30/20)

https://www.wyff4.com/article/anderson-african-americans-hit-harder-by-coronavirus-due-to-underlying-health-diseases/32337610#

Illinois Latinos Surpass African Americans in Coronavirus Cases (Chicago Sun Times, 4/30/20)

https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/2020/4/30/21242693/coroanvirus-patients-covid-19-latino-african-american-race-illinois

More than 80 Percent of Hospitalized COVID Patients in Georgia were African American Study Finds (WP, 4/29/20)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/more-than-80-percent-of-hospitalized-covid-patients-in-georgia-were-african-american-study-finds/2020/04/29/a71496ea-8993-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html

Civil Rights and Religious Leaders Urge African Americans to Defy Governor’s Efforts to Reopen Businesses (CNN, 4/25/2020)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/25/politics/civil-rights-leaders-african-americans-coronavirus/index.html

Tuskegee Always Looms in Our Minds: Some Fear Black Americans, Hit Hardest By Coronavirus, May Not Get Coronavirus Vaccine (USA Today, 4/20/20)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/04/19/coronavirus-vaccine-black-americans-prevention/5146777002/