We Don’t Know What’s Behind the COVID-19 Racial Disparity. And That’s a Problem.
Posted on AllSides May 27th, 2020
From The Left
OPINION
COVID-19 is killing black Americans with horrifying precision. Black Americans get the disease at a higher rate than white people do. Retirement homes with black residents become outbreak clusters. Black people die of COVID-19 at a higher rate than white people do—and that rate is even higher than it may seem, according to a study released last week by Yale University’s Cary P. Gross and co-authors. When you account for age—black people are on average younger than white people, and should therefore be expected to die at a lower rate,...
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