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African Americans and COVID-19: Part VII (10 Articles)

Black woman with an "Essential Not Expendable" sign
Black woman with an "Essential Not Expendable" sign

Black People are at the center of two public Health crises in the US: Covid-19 and Police Brutality (Quartz, 5/31/2020)

https://qz.com/1862403/black-people-are-at-the-center-of-two-public-health-crises-in-the-us-covid-19-and-police-brutality/

Kildee highlights Death of friends to show Disproportionate fallout of COVID-19 on Blacks (MLive, 5/30/2020)

https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2020/05/kildee-highlights-death-of-friends-to-show-disproportionate-fallout-of-covid-19-on-blacks.html

What Do Coronavirus Racial Disparities Look Like State by State? (NPR, 5/30/2020)

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/30/865413079/what-do-coronavirus-racial-disparities-look-like-state-by-state

Whites Far less Likely to die from Coronavirus than Blacks, Latinos in L.A. County, officials say (KTLA, 5/29/2020)

https://ktla.com/news/whites-far-less-likely-to-die-from-coronavirus-than-blacks-latinos-in-l-a-county-officials-say/

How many Blacks died in Waukegan and North Chicago of COVID-19? (Chicago Crusader, 5/29/2020).

https://chicagocrusader.com/how-many-blacks-died-in-waukegan-and-north-chicago-of-covid-19/

Whites far less likely to die from the Coronavirus than Blacks, Latinos in L.A. County (Los Angeles Times 5/29/2020)

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-29/whites-far-less-likely-to-die-from-the-coronavirus-than-non-whites-in-l-a-county

Disparities in Hispanic and Black death rates much worse than previously reported (The Connecticut Mirror, 5/29/2020)

https://ctmirror.org/2020/05/29/disparities-in-racial-and-ethnic-death-rates-much-worse- than-previously-reported/

Black People Have Suffered the Most From COVID-19. But They’re Still Suspicious of Vaccines. (Mother Jones,5/28/2020)

https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/05/black-people-have-suffered-the-most-from-covid-but-theyre-still-suspicious-of-vaccines/

George Floyd video adds to trauma: 'When is the last time you saw a white person killed online?' (USA Today, 5/28/2020)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/28/george-floyd-ahmaud-arbery-covid-emotional-toll-hits-black-families/5270216002/

The Vulnerability of African Americans to the Coronavirus is a National Emergency (The Economist, 5/28/2020)

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/05/28/the-vulnerability-of-african-americans-to-the-coronavirus-is-a-national-emergency

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