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

Listen: Why are so many Black Americans dying from COVID-19? (News Decoder, 8/30/2020)

https://news-decoder.com/listen-why-are-african-americans-experiencing-higher-infection-rates-of-covid-19-in-the-u-s/

The Quandary of COVID-19 Vaccine Trails for Black Americans who Rightfully Distrust Medical Researchers (Union of Concerned Scientists, 9/25/2020)

https://blog.ucsusa.org/adrienne-hollis/the-quandary-of-covid-19-vaccine-trials-for-black-americans-who-rightfully-distrust-medical-researchers

Michigan officials: Blacks contracting, dying of virus at same rate as whites (The Detroit News, 9/28/2020)

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/09/28/michigan-officials-blacks-contracting-dying-virus-same-rate-whites/3561109001/

It’s true: 1 in 1,000 Black Americans have died in the Covid-19 pandemic (Vox, 9/29/2020)

https://www.vox.com/2020/9/29/21494803/presidential-debate-2020-joe-biden-us-covid-deaths

Solving the mystery of why COVID-19 kills a disproportionate number of Black Americans (10 on Your Side ( WAVY.com. 9/29/2020)

https://www.wavy.com/news/health/coronavirus/solving-the-mystery-of-why-covid-19-kills-a-disproportionate-number-of-black-americans/

The Black Doctors Working to Make Coronavirus Testing More Equitable (NPR, 10/1/2020)

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/01/916272046/in-philadelphia-black-doctors-bring-coronavirus-tests-to-street-corners-and-chur

Covid-19’s stunningly unequal death toll in America, in one chart (Vox, 10/2/2020)

https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/2020/10/2/21496884/us-covid-19-deaths-by-race-black-white-americans

Consequences of COVID-19 in African American Communities (Psychology Today, 10/2/2020)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hope-resilience/202010/consequences-covid-19-in-african-american-communities

Black Americans Have Been hit hard by the coronavirus, but wary of vaccine trials due to decades of mistrust. 2 drug companies are trying to fix that (Business Insider, 10/5/2020)

https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-vaccine-black-americans-phase-3-trials-2020-9

‘I Won’t Be Used as a Guniea Pig for White People (NYT, 10/7/2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/health/coronavirus-vaccine-trials-african-americans.html

Two Pharmaceutical Companies are Trying to Recruit Black Americans for Coronavirus Vaccine Trials (Black Enterprise, 10/8/2020)

https://www.blackenterprise.com/two-pharmaceutical-companies-are-trying-to-recruit-black-americans-for-coronavirus-vaccine-trials/

Racism is the most significant underlying condition in the COVID-19 pandemic (Poynter, 10/8/2020)

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2020/racism-is-the-most-significant-underlying-condition-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Meharry Investigator to Lead NIH Community Research in TN for Vulnerable COVID-19 Populations (The Tennessee Tribune, 10/9/2020)

https://tntribune.com/meharry-investigator-to-lead-nih-community-research-in-tn-for-vulnerable-to-covid-19-populations/

Here’s Detroit Health Department’s New Citywide COVID-19 Order (WDET. 10/9/2020)

https://wdet.org/posts/2020/10/09/90134-heres-detroit-health-departments-new-citywide-covid-19-order/

Poll: Rural Georgians Have Disproportionate COVID-19 burden (Albany Herald.com, 10/10/2020)

https://www.albanyherald.com/news/poll-rural-georgians-have-disproportionate-covid-19-burden/article_5f6b6352-0af6-11eb-9caa-6710cad53e03.html

Removing political influence over COVID vaccine can build trust for African American community (The Philadelphia Inquirer,10/14/2020)

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/covid-coronavirus-vaccine-african-american-trust-science-20201014.html

UB-community partnership reducing COVID-19 deaths among African Americans (2WGRZ, 10/14/2020)

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/ub-community-partnership-reducing-covid-19-deaths-in-afro-american-community/71-882f509a-5ac8-46c2-94dc-0b1efb4a7a15

Drew Altman: Black Americans Are More Skeptical of a Coronavirus Vaccine (KFF, 10/14/2020)

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/perspective/black-americans-are-more-skeptical-of-a-coronavirus-vaccine/

Who Will Get the Vaccine First? Here’s Where You Might Land in Line (National Geographic, 10/14/2020)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/10/who-is-first-in-line-coronavirus-vaccine/

Black doctors work to make coronavirus testing more equitable (Fierce Biotech, 10/15/2020)

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/black-doctors-work-to-make-coronavirus-testing-more-equitable