African Americans and COVID-19: Part VI (20 Articles)

Systemic Racism Is Killing Black People During the Pandemic (Elemental Medium, 5/27/2020).

https://elemental.medium.com/systemic-racism-is-killing-black-people-during-the-pandemic-65d9c8eede6e

'This Report is ... a joke': House Democrats blast CDC over racial disparity data amid Coronavirus (USA Today, 5/27/2020)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/27/coronavirus-democrats-racial-disparity-cdc-report/5270769002/

Louisiana cop fired for saying 'unfortunate' more Black people Didn't die of Coronavirus (NBC News, 5/27/2020)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-cop-fired-saying-unfortunate-more-black-people-didn-t-n1215451

COVID-19 Is Crushing Black Communities. Some States Are Paying Attention. (Pew, 5/27/2020)

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/05/27/covid-19-is-crushing-black-communities-some-states-are-paying-attention

As Washington D.C. Weighs Reopening, African Americans in the Nation's Capital Brace for the Worst (Time, 5/27/2020)

https://time.com/5842744/reopening-washington-dc-african-americans-coronavirus/

Blood Clots fill lungs of Black coronavirus victims, study finds (CNN, 5/27/2020)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/health/coronavirus-african-americans-new-orleans/index.html

'We're expendable': Black Americans pay the price as states lift lockdowns (The Guardian, 5/25/2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/25/covid-19-lockdowns-african-americans-essential-workers

New Poll Shows Impact Of Coronavirus On African Americans (WUNC, 5/24/2020)

https://www.wunc.org/post/new-poll-shows-impact-coronavirus-african-americans

Black people are dying from coronavirus — Air Pollution is one of the main culprits (The Hill,5/24/2020)

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/499354-black-people-are-dying-from-coronavirus-air-pollution-is-one-of

DeWine addresses COVID-19 disparities, lays out recommendations moving forward (Cincinnati.com, 5/23/2020)

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/05/23/dewine-addresses-covid-19-disparities-lays-out-first-recommendations/5230298002/

New research suggests Coronavirus disproportionately impacts African Americans — but why? (Market Watch, 5/23/2020)

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-research-suggests-coronavirus-disproportionately-impacts-african-americans-but-why-2020-05-22

Black Coronavirus Patients Land in Hospitals More Often, Study Finds (NYT, 5/23/2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/health/coronavirus-black-patients.html

Coronavirus Devastates Black New Orleans: ‘This Is Bigger Than Katrina’ (The Wall Street Journal, 5/23/2020)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-is-a-medical-and-financial-disaster-for-blacks-in-new-orleans-11590226200

Ohio officials apologize over mask advice to Blacks, Latinos (Mercury News, 5/22/2020).

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/22/ohio-officials-apologize-over-mask-advice-to-blacks-latinos/

Rep. Emilia Sykes: DeWine’s steps to address the COVID-19 impact on blacks are 'too little, too late' (WKYC, 5/22/2020)

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/investigations/rep-emilia-sykes-dewines-steps-to-address-the-covid-19-impact-on-blacks-is-too-little-too-late/95-dbb7878d-67c4-46c3-ad5f-ef3ae20a2ba7

In Chicago, Coronavirus isn't the only problem Black and Latino residents face: Reporter's Notebook (ABC News, 5/22/2020)

https://abcnews.go.com/US/chicago-coronavirus-problem-black-latino-resident-face-reporters/story?id=70817210

One reason why Coronavirus is hitting Black Americans the hardest (Vox, 5/22/2020)

https://www.vox.com/videos/2020/5/22/21267365/coronavirus-black-americans-pollution-deaths

Black Americans and Latinos nearly 3 times as likely to know someone who died of COVID-19: POLL (ABC News, 5/22/2020)

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/black-americans-latinos-times-died-covid-19-poll/story?id=70794789

Black Americans dying of Covid-19 at three times the rate of white people (The Guardian, 5/20/ 2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/20/black-americans-death-rate-covid-19-coronavirus

The Disproportionate Impact of Covid-19 on Black Health Care Workers in the U.S. (Harvard Business Review, 5/14/2020)

https://hbr.org/2020/05/the-disproportionate-impact-of-covid-19-on-black-health-care-workers-in-the-u-s