Coronavirus is disproportionately killing African Americans
Early data from the US coronavirus pandemic exposes how systemic racism and inequality put minority groups at risk. People wait in line to receive testing during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outside Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago, Illinois Chicago, Illinois - The early data emerging from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States has laid bare the disparities many public-health specialists are all too familiar with: Racial minorities are disproportionately affected by health crises such as this one. And in the case of COVID-19, more of them have died. Earlier this week, officials in Chicago, Illinois were among the first to release a racial breakdown of the city's 6,100 cases. More than half were African American, despite only the group only accounting for 30 percent of the city's 2.7 million residents. Seven in 10 patients who died from COVID-19 in the city were African American, officials s