Why coronavirus looks different to black America
Posted on AllSides May 1st, 2020
From The Center
The coronavirus has hit black communities disproportionately hard. Understanding why can help improve health care for minorities going forward.
Back in early March, shortly after Mardi Gras had raged in New Orleans and Florida welcomed spring breakers, Savannah Mayor Van Johnson made an unpopular decision. He canceled the second largest St. Patrick’s Day parade in the country.
It fit with the Democratic mayor’s early response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which was as aggressive as that of any civic leader in the South at the time.
He issued his city’s stay-at-home...
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