We Don’t Know What’s Behind the COVID-19 Racial Disparity. And That’s a Problem. - Word&Way

We Don’t Know What’s Behind the COVID-19 Racial Disparity. And That’s a Problem.

COVID-19 is killing black Americans with horrifying precision. Black Americans get the disease at a higher rate than white people do. When you account for age, black mortality is 3.57 times white mortality.

Outrage is warranted. But outrage unaccompanied by analysis is a danger in itself.

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