The new coronavirus isn’t biased about who it infects — so why does data emerging from some states suggest that African Americans are bearing the brunt of the pandemic in the US?

Experts say blacks are disproportionately impacted by underlying health conditions linked to poverty, face discrimination in medical care, and are more likely to work jobs that require them to leave their home. “We know that blacks are more likely to have diabetes, heart disease, lung disease,” the nation’s top doctor, Surgeon General Jerome Adams told CBS News on Tuesday.

These chronic illnesses, which are in turn linked to poverty and structural racism, can lead to more serious forms of the COVID-19 disease. Adams, who is himself black and has high blood pressure and asthma, added: “I represent that legacy of growing up poor and black in America. “And I, and many black Americans, are at higher risk for COVID.”

– Emerging trend –

There is no nationwide data available on COVID-19 cases by race, but a pattern of over-representation by black Americans has emerged in states or jurisdictions that are sharing the numbers. Sixty-eight percent of coronavirus deaths in Chicago have been among African Americans, who make up just 30 percent of the city’s population. “Those numbers take your breath away,” the city’s mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday at a coronavirus briefing.

“This is a call to action for all of us.” The trend is repeated in North Carolina, Louisiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and the capital Washington. Doctor Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told AFP the issue was also linked to social class, with black people more likely to work jobs deemed essential that expose them to potential infection.

“That population is more public facing,” he said. “More bus drivers, more people taking public transportation to work, more people providing services in nursing homes, more folks working in grocery stores.”

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/why-african-americans-are-dying-at-higher-rates-from-covid-19.html

Hmmm. God help us

They are not in their natural habitat!
But on a serious note, I pray all these end soon Lord!

Another segment to this story is the initial belief among African Americans that Coronavirus does not kill blacks or people of low social class standing. That alone made many illiterates among them to reject the social distancing rule!

Based on the works listed which are mostly done by blacks, its possible.

Since they get to meet more people daily.

The earlier assertions of poverty and underlying ailments cannot be true.

They should stop doing drugs and gang wars, find a work and shut up!

Black man is always looking for excuse and pity party

The black race.... No comment

They should start getting some good education.

in the environment they are, EDUCATION IS THE KEY.

Africans you are not immune to the virus. Keep yourselves and yours safe. Stay at home.

Please stream, download and share my new song for COVID19. Link in my signature.

Blacks and victim mentality...