For @voxdotcom, I took a deep dive into why and how Covid-19 is disparaging black communities based on the data we have. The bigger question I wanted to answer: Will white America just move on after a certain point and what will that mean for black people? https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/4/7/21211849/coronavirus-black-americans

To understand why we are being hit the hardest look no further than structural racism. It has made us sick for forever. Now for many of us, as Covid-19 makes its rounds, it’s just too late. Social distancing isn't an option when you're stuck on the hamster wheel of poverty.

On Monday, not only did Louisiana release data by race, but the state also released a list of the leading underlying conditions in their positive Covid-19 patients: hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and obesity.

A hypertension expert I interviewed pointed out that we are likely seeing a number of young black people succumb to Covid-19 because some of us may be walking around unaware that we have some of these underlying conditions.

There’s also a lot to learn from the fight against HIV and also pandemics past like 1918 influenza. Though black people had lower rates of influenza, white people still found a way to say we were the disease threats.

So what happens some months from now when white America recovers from Covid-19 but black communities are still being terrorized?