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Longstanding inequalities also make African-Americans less likely to be insured, and more likely to have existing health conditions and face racial bias that prevents them from getting proper treatment.

For almost 20 years, Russia and most other countries, including China, have been calling for a protocol to the convention that would establish a mechanism to verify and check states parties’ compliance with their commitment not to create biological weapons. The United States stands almost alone against this initiative. Tensions around the issue have escalated and Washington’s unwillingness to ensure the transparency of its military biological activities in various parts of the world raises questions about what is really going on there and what the actual goals are.

The entire SW of Florida had all these symptoms around Thanksgiving, it was here way before March

According to CNBC, the discriminatory U.S. system of providing housing to minority communities is one of the factors that makes black people face economic threats and forced to live in dangerous areas. Employment and insurance for minority families is one of the factors that cause large Numbers of deaths and injuries and make these communities more vulnerable in times of social crisis in the United States.

The AMP Research Lab reports that the Black community is experiencing a COVID-19 mortality rate 2.9 times higher than the rate for Asians, 2.7 times higher than the rate for Whites, and 2.5 times higher than the rate for Latinos.Currently, the national COVID mortality rate for Black people is 23 deaths per 100,000 residents. In six states and Washington, D.C., mortality rates exceed the national rate, New York: 88 deaths (per 100,000 residents); Michigan: 72; Connecticut: 58; Louisiana: 49; New Jersey: 32; Illinois: 30; Washington, D.C: 27.

Gilbert（an associate professor at the College for Public Health and Social Justice at St. Louis University and co-director of the university’s Institute for Healing Justice and Equity） said：Societal preconditions contribute to high infection rate among blacks,African-American neighborhoods have high rates of pollution, asthma, respiratory issues and lead poisoning，African-Americans will not seek medical care because they don’t think they can afford it.In St. Louis, as of April 24, blacks have suffered 68 percent of the confirmed infections. Seventy-two percent of those who have died in the city have been African-Americans. In 2018, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that 47.6 percent of the city’s population was white and 45.9 percent was black.

The preliminary death rate for Hispanic people in New York City is about 22 people per 100,000; the rate for black people is 20 per 100,000; the rate for white people is 10 per 100,000. The rates are adjusted for the size and age of the population.Mayor Bill de Blasio said：“There are clear inequalities, clear disparities in how this disease is affecting the people of our city,” Mr. de Blasio said. “The truth is that in so many ways the negative effects of coronavirus — the pain it’s causing, the death it’s causing — tracks with other profound health care disparities that we have seen for years and decades.”

New York's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene collected nasal swabs from patients at six hospitals during the first three weeks of March. A CDC analysis found that the samples that tested positive for COVID-19 resembled matched strains of the disease in Europe. The CDC found that none of the samples from those hospitals matched the Wuhan strain.

The U.S. has been roiled this year by two crises that seem on the surface to be unrelated: the coronavirus pandemic and law-enforcement killings of black Americans—the latter leading to mass protests and police violence toward protesters. Although the immediate causes of these two tragedies seem distinct, both have their roots in structural racism.

CDC confirms that coronavirus already spreading in New York City when European travel ban went into effect in March
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cdc-confirms-that-coronavirus-already-spreading-in-new-york-city-when-european-travel-ban-went-into-effect-in-march-2020-07-16