African Americans and COVID-19: Part V (15 articles)

COVID-19 Took Black Lives First. It Did Not Have Too (ProPublica, 5/9/20)

https://features.propublica.org/chicago-first-deaths/covid-coronavirus-took-black-lives-first/

Why Tampa Bay’s African American Community Hasn’t Seen High Numbers of COVID-19 Cases (10 TV, 5/9/20)

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-african-american-community-tampa-bay/67-05c4a8f2-1c8c-4446-a1fe-083138289eba

The Color of Coronavirus: COVID-19 Deaths By Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. (APM Research Lab, 5/8/20)

https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race

Mahoning County Reports 39 New Coronavirus Cases, 4 New Deaths (Mahoning Matters, 5/8/20)

https://www.mahoningmatters.com/local-news/mahoning-county-reports-39-new-coronavirus-cases-4-new-deaths-2335476

The Coronavirus Pandemic is Hitting Black and Brown Americans, especially hard on all Fronts (10TV, 5/8/20)

http://www.kten.com/story/42109170/the-coronavirus-pandemic-is-hitting-black-and-brown-americans-especially-hard-on-all-fronts

The Coronavirus Pandemic is Hitting Black and Brown American Especially Hard on All Fronts (CNN, 5/8/20)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/08/us/coronavirus-pandemic-race-impact-trnd/index.html

African American Counties in US Record Over Half of Corona Cases, Nearly 60 pc Deaths (Times of India, 5/8/20)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/african-american-counties-in-us-record-over-half-of-corona-cases-nearly-60-pc-deaths/articleshow/75617341.cms

Many Sites are Reporting Race Data for Only Some COVID-19 Cases for Cases and Death (FiveThirtyEight, 5/7/20)

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/many-states-are-reporting-race-data-for-only-some-covid-19-cases-and-deaths/

How Racism is Shaping the Coronavirus Pandemic (New Yorker, 5/7/20)

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-racism-is-shaping-the-coronavirus-pandemic

Blacks in Britain are Four Times as Likely to Die of Coronavirus as Whites, Data Show (WP, 5/7/20)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/blacks-in-britain-are-four-times-as-likely-to-die-of-coronavirus-as-whites-data-show/2020/05/07/2dc76710-9067-11ea-9322-a29e75effc93_story.html

Wisconsin Governor Announces Free Coronavirus Testing for African Americans, Latinos (USA Today, 5/7/20)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/07/coronavirus-wisconsin-plans-free-testing-minority-communities/3092830001/

Watch Doctors Explain Why COVID-19 May be More Dangerous for African Americans (Time, 5/7/20)

https://time.com/5833080/scientists-covid-19-african-americans-katie-couric/

Disproportionately Black Counties in US Account for More than 50% of Cases, nearly 60% of Deaths Study Shows (The Inquirer, 5/7/20)

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/amfar-foundation-for-aids-research-coronavirus-study-blacks-african-americans-20200507.html

Out of Pandemic Anti-Blackness A Case for Pan Africanism (Al-Jazeera, 5/6/20)

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/pandemic-anti-blackness-case-pan-africanism-200502160650489.html

A New Study Shows Just How Badly Black Americans Have Been Hit By COVID-19 (Politico, 5/5/20)

ttps://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/05/black-counties-disproportionately-hit-by-coronavirus-237540