COVID-19 Cases, Deaths Expose Stark Racial Divide

Black Americans are dying at two and a half times the rate of white Americans, according to the COVID Racial Data Tracker, a collaboration between the COVID Tracking Project and the new Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. The gap is even more stark for young and middle-aged people, an analysis by the Brookings Institution found. Among those 35 to 44 years old, Black Americans are 10 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than white Americans; for those 45 to 54 years old, the multiple is seven.
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