New data out today show Black Americans continue to die from #coronavirus at the highest rates.

• 1 in 1,250 Black
• 1 in 1,500 Indigenous
• 1 in 1,700 Pac. Islander
• 1 in 2,200 Latino
• 1 in 2,800 White &
• 1 in 3,000 Asian
…Americans has DIED (through 8/4) https://twitter.com/apmresearch/status/1291093751763476481

Compared to Whites, the latest U.S. age-adjusted COVID-19 mortality rate for:

Blacks is 3.7 times as high
Indigenous people is 3.5X as high
Pacific Islanders is 3.1X as high
Latinos is 2.8X as high
Asians is 1.4X as high.

(8/4 data)

If they had died at the same rate as white Americans, 18,000 Black, 6,000 Latino, 600 Indigenous and 70 Pacific Islander Americans would still be alive.

18,000 Black Americans.

Sit with that.

I truly believe the inaction of the administration rests in the fact that Black people and other people of color are dying at disproportionately high rates.

We already know the solutions in the short- and long-term to addressing these gross racial health inequities.

People are already responding asking why we are seeing these shocking numbers.

Because systemic racism!

Through social and economic policies have left Black communities literally sick.

Thank you, @APMResearch, for keeping track of this data and encourage everyone to follow them.