2/ Black Americans are 3x more likely to be killed by police than whites

In 8 cities, there& #39;s a higher chance that police will kill a Black person than someone from the general US population will get killed by anyone, police or otherwise https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ ">https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/">...
3/ At an eerily similar rate, Black Americans appear to be 3.5x more likely to die from COVID19 than white Americans https://twitter.com/UREssien/status/1262174159838359553?s=20">https://twitter.com/UREssien/...
5/ After weeks of social distancing, the people who are still getting COVID19 in NYC are frontline, essential workers - many who are people of color - & those living in predominantly neighborhoods of color https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-new-cases.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/2...
7/ For those of us who claim to care about public health & stopping COVID19, we need to call systemic racism what it is &, rather than shy away from doing so to avoid sounding "controversial," fight just as hard against it as we do for more testing, PPE, & so on
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