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Available evidence (though injuriously limited) shows that Black people are being infected & dying of #coronavirus at higher rates. Disproportionate Black suffering is what many of us have suspected and feared because it is consistent with the entirety of American history. https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1246128598756536321
It's happening in Milwaukee
It's happening in Detroit & NOLA
It' happening out of sight and in the context of inadequate data because those with the power to gather and release that data refuse to do so.
None of this is surprising. Racism is a constitutive and unavoidable force in American life (social, economic, political) and it does not take break when a pandemic emerges, it only gains more force.
This isn't our first time facing this reality. We have known the dangers that racism poses in the face of pandemics: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504373/
The scariest part of this: we have been (and continue to be) inadequately equipped and insufficiently inclined to do what it takes to "optimize" "pandemic interventions" in ways that minimize the disproportionate harms that threaten communities of color.
