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

‘This is a Crisis’: National Urban League Finds Persistent Racial Disparities Exacerbated During Pandemic (USA Today, 8/13/2020)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/13/urban-league-black-people-latinos-suffer-disproportionately-pandemic/3333858001/

How a pandemic laid bare CNY’s health crisis (Syracuse.com, 8/13/2020)

https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/08/how-a-pandemic-laid-bare-cnys-health-crisis.html

Pandemic Hits Black LGBTQ People with Double Whammy: Report (The Washington Informer, 8/12/2020)

https://www.washingtoninformer.com/pandemic-hits-black-lgbtq-people-with-double-whammy-report/

How Coronavirus and Race Collide in the US (WP, 8/11/2020)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/how-coronavirus-and-race-collide-in-the-us/2020/08/11/2b0e75d0-db95-11ea-b4f1-25b762cdbbf4_story.html

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, national Black physicians group addresses disparities (Columbus Dispatch, 8/11/2020)

https://www.dispatch.com/opinion/20200811/column-amid-covid-19-pandemic-national-black-physicians-group-addresses-disparities

Racial Disparity in COVID-19 deaths: Seeking economic roots in census data (VOX EU, 8/11/2020)

https://voxeu.org/article/racial-disparity-covid-19-deaths

Outbreak Alabama: Being Black with COVID-19 (Al.Com Alabama, 8/11/2020)

https://www.al.com/coronavirus/2020/08/outbreak-alabama-being-black-with-covid-19.html

Racial Disproportionality in Covid Clinical Trials (The New Journal of Medicine, 8/11/2020)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2021971

Ellis: The COVID-19 vaccine decision awaiting us (The Philadelphia Tribune, 8/11/2020)

https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/glennellis/glenn-ellis-the-covid-19-vaccine-decision-awaiting-us/article_bc5eef96-b3d0-5d7e-b2db-22a4c82fc049.html

Racism’s Hidden Toll (NYT, 8/11/2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/11/opinion/us-coronavirus-black-mortality.html

Black, Latino Workers Jobs at Higher Rate, Researchers Say (NHPR, 8/11/2020)

https://www.nhpr.org/post/black-latino-workers-lost-jobs-higher-rate-researchers-say

Coronavirus death in Springfield show high numbers for minorities, long-term care residents (Mass Live, 8/10/2020)

https://www.masslive.com/coronavirus/2020/08/coronavirus-deaths-in-springfield-show-high-numbers-for-minorities-long-term-care-residents.html

Race for coronavirus vaccine takes big step with trial at University of Maryland (The Baltimore Sun, 8/10/2020)

https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-hs-coronavirus-vaccine-trial-begins-20200810-kb3qylorwfadhal7td7mh7cn34-story.html

COVID-19 Only Adding to the Challenges Health Centers Face (HCP Live, 8/9/2020)

https://www.hcplive.com/view/covid-19-challenges-health-centers

UnitedHealth Group Studies COVID-19 risks with sickle cell (Star Tribune, 8/8/2020)

https://www.startribune.com/unitedhealth-group-studies-covid-19-risks-with-sickle-cell/572054442/