Black Virginians could be in greater danger from the coronavirus, both contracting it and facing serious health consequences.

But bad data — again! — has stymied the state and made the situation unclear in the commonwealth. https://www.pilotonline.com/news/health/vp-nw-coronavirus-virignia-racial-disparities-20200409-7pkshbe2fvh6bg23f6b6izyaau-story.html">https://www.pilotonline.com/news/heal...

Elsewhere, stark racial disparities are clear.

In Louisiana, 70% of the COVID-19 patients who died are black, a group that makes up 32% of the state’s population. In Illinois, 43% of people who died are black (that group makes up only 14% of the state) https://www.pilotonline.com/news/health/vp-nw-coronavirus-virignia-racial-disparities-20200409-7pkshbe2fvh6bg23f6b6izyaau-story.html">https://www.pilotonline.com/news/heal...

In Virginia, we don’t even have racial information on more than half of total confirmed COVID-19 cases. Same is true of deaths.

“We must be able to measure this here, in Virginia,” Gov. Ralph Northam said yesterday.
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