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African Americans and COVID-19: Part VIII (20 articles)

African Americans and COVID-19: Part VIII (20 articles)

Maine CDC: State population is 1.6% Black, yet 24% of Maine's COVID-19 cases are among Black community (News Center Maine, 6/19/2020)

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/maine-cdc-state-population-is-16-black-yet-24-of-maines-covid-19-cases-are-among-black-community/97-f39a62bb-e1db-47f3-a9e0-929bd7810465

COVID-19 is Claiming the Lives of Blacks & Hispanics at Higher Rates Than Asians & Whites (Countable, 6/19/2020)

https://www.countable.us/articles/45082-covid-19-claiming-lives-blacks-hispanics-higher-rates-asians-whites

Report: COVID-19 hits Blacks, Hispanics harder (Commonwealth Magazine, 6/19/2020)

https://commonwealthmagazine.org/health/report-covid-19-hits-blacks-hispanics-harder/

Richard Bernstein: Covid-19 and Structural Racism (Commentary, 6/18/2020).

https://vtdigger.org/2020/06/18/richard-bernstein-covid-19-and-structural-racism/

COVID-19 Health disparity gap for Blacks in Erie County closes (2WGRZ, 6/18/2020)

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/covid-19-health-disparity-gap-for-blacks-in-erie-county-closes/71-2701d7aa-5419-47b0-a912-93f0c342c878

Coronavirus, Economic Toll Threaten to Worsen Black Mortality Rates (The Wall Street Journal, 6/13/2020)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-economic-toll-threaten-to-worsen-black-mortality-rates-11592046000

As states reopen, Black workers are at greater risk for COVID-19 (CBS News, 6/12/2020)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-workers-lives-essential-frontline-jobs-risk-coronavirus-reopening/

The Daily 202: D.C. surpasses 500 coronavirus deaths; nearly 3 in 4 have been African American (The Washington Post, 6/12/2020)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2020/06/12/daily-202-d-c-surpasses-500-coronavirus-deaths-nearly-3-in-4-have-been-african-american/5ee32855602ff12947e8b314/

Did Melinda Gates Say This About Black People and COVID-19 Vaccination? (Snopes,6/11/2020)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/melinda-black-people-covid/

Coronavirus pandemic and George Floyd protests highlight health disparities for black people (CNBC, 6/11/2020)

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/11/coronavirus-george-floyd-protests-show-racial-disparities-in-health.html

‘The Direct Result of Racism’: Covid-19 lays bare how discrimination drives health disparities among Black people (STAT 6/09/2020)

https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/09/systemic-racism-black-health-disparities/

Racial Inequalities in COVID-19 — The Impact on Black Communities (Medical News Today, 6/5/2020)

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/racial-inequalities-in-covid-19-the-impact-on-black-communities

Coronavirus crisis is frightening for White folk, scarier still for Blacks (Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder,6/4/2020)

https://spokesman-recorder.com/2020/06/04/coronavirus-crisis-is-frightening-for-white-folk-scarier-still-for-blacks/

Black Americans face higher COVID-19 risks, are more hesitant to trust medical scientists, get vaccinated (Pew Research Center, 6/4/2020)

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/04/black-americans-face-higher-covid-19-risks-are-more-hesitant-to-trust-medical-scientists-get-vaccinated/

Genetic Susceptibility Underlies Greater Risk for Arrhythmia, SCD in Blacks With COVID-19 (The Cardiology Advisor , 6/4/2020)

https://www.thecardiologyadvisor.com/home/topics/arrhythmia/african-americans-with-covid-19-at-greater-risk-for-ventricular-arrhythmias-and-sudden-cardiac-death-2/

‘Which death do they choose?’: Many Black men fear wearing a mask more than the coronavirus (STAT, 6/3/2020)

https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/03/which-deamany-black-men-fear-wearing-mask-more-than-coronavirus/

Hospitalization and Mortality among Black Patients and White Patients with Covid-19 ( New England Journal of Medicine, 6/2/2020)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2011686

From Jobs to Homeownership, Protests Put Spotlight on Racial Economic Divide (NPR, 6/1/2020)

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/866794025/from-jobs-to-homeownership-protests-put-spotlight-on-economic-divide

Protesting Racism Versus Risking COVID-19: 'I Wouldn't Weigh These Crises Separately' (NPR, /1/2020)

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/01/867200259/protests-over-racism-versus-risk-of-covid-i-wouldn-t-weigh-these-crises-separate

The American Nightmare. To be black and conscious of Anti-Black racism is to stare into the mirror of your own extinction. (The Atlantic, 6/1/2020)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/american-nightmare/612457/

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