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Coronavirus disparity in Louisiana: About 70% of the victims are black, but why?

Roughly 70% of the people who have died from coronavirus in Louisiana are black, a striking disparity for a state where African-Americans make up only 32% of the population that

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Chicago’s coronavirus disparity: Black Chicagoans are dying at nearly six times the rate of white...

Black Chicagoans are dying from the coronavirus at a rate higher than any other racial demographic, public records show.

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African Americans may be dying from COVID-19 at a higher rate. Advocates are demanding data.

"Our ability to fully understand and confront this pandemic requires and demands that we obtain racial data now," one advocate said.

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Why is coronavirus (COVID-19) death rate so high for African Americans?

Among the many statistics emerging during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is the high number of deaths in Michigan’s African American population.

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So large urban areas with large African American populations are experiencing disproportionate death rate of African Americans

70% of deaths in New Orleans
70% of deaths in Chicago
81% of deaths in Milwaukee

which is scary as Hell

so cities with highest percentage African Americans

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Detroit, New Orleans, Chicago, New York. All with disproportionate African American COVID 19 deaths

but what’s going on in Atlanta, St Louis, Jacksonville?

are they experiencing the same thing?

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Florida, it’s proportionate

Look at that

Atlanta, 70% of the population, 90% of the deaths

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