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

Born in Grief: A Mother’s Death highlights pandemic’s racial disparities. (Star Tribune, 9/6/2020)

https://www.startribune.com/a-new-mother-s-covid-death-shines-light-on-ethnic-disparities/572305372/

Saenz: Latinos, Black People Bear Brunt of COVID (Rio Grande Guardian, 9/5/2020)

https://riograndeguardian.com/saenz-latinos-black-people-bear-brunt-of-covid/

Tackling COVID-19 in Mobile, one step at a time (Alabama Public radio, 9/3/2020)

https://www.apr.org/post/tackling-covid-19-mobile-one-step-time

COVID-19, A Stigma To Many Quietly Taking Toll on South Florida’s Haitian Community (Haitian Times, 9/3/2020)

https://haitiantimes.com/2020/09/03/covid-19-a-stigma-to-many-quietly-taking-toll-on-south-floridas-haitian-community/

States sees another jump in COVID-19 cases on Thursday (Village Soup (Knox), 9/3/2020)

https://knox.villagesoup.com/p/state-sees-another-jump-in-covid-19-cases-on-thursday/1869385

Why coronavirus is hitting Black seniors especially hard (Tampa Bay Times, 9/3/2020)

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/09/03/why-coronavirus-is-hitting-black-seniors-especially-hard/

Social factors contribute to COVId-19 cases among Blacks and Latinos (The Bay State Banner, 9/3/2020)

https://www.baystatebanner.com/2020/09/02/social-factors-contribute-to-covid-19-cases-among-blacks-and-latinos/

Dillard & Xavier University presidents urge students to join them in COVID-19 vaccine trial (4WWL, 9/3/2020)

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/dillard-xavier-university-presidents-urge-students-to-join-them-in-covid-vaccine-trial/289-a45ac884-37a7-49e3-b837-024ab31c8b23

Navigating the COVID-19 Landscape: Strategies for Mature Citizens (Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 9/3/2020)

https://diverseeducation.com/article/189317/

Depression triples in US adults amid COVID-19 stressors (University of Minnesota Center for Infectious disease Research and Policy, 9/3/2020)

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/09/depression-triples-us-adults-amid-covid-19-stressors

Op-Ed: Black Americans and COVID-19 Trials (The Dallas Weekly, 9/3/2020)

https://www.dallasweekly.com/articles/op-ed-black-americans-and-covid-19-clinical-trials/

COVID-19 mortality rate for white Americans pales in comparison to pre-pandemic Black mortality rates (Benefits Pro, 9/3/2020)

https://www.benefitspro.com/2020/09/02/covid-19-mortality-rate-for-white-americans-pales-in-comparison-to-pre-pandemic-black-mortality-rates/?slreturn=20200803204917

Black and Latino workers Still Seeking Higher Unemployment (City Limits, 9/2/2020)

https://citylimits.org/2020/09/02/black-and-latino-workers-still-seeing-higher-unemployment/

Just 13% of Black People out of work are getting unemployment benefits during the pandemic (CNBC, 9/1/2020)

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/01/just-13percent-of-black-people-out-of-work-get-pandemic-unemployment-benefits.html

Elderly, ill and Black in a pandemic: “I’m Doing Everything I can not to get this virus’ (CNN, 9/1/2020)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/health/older-black-americans-covid-19-disparities/index.html