Study finds black communities account for disproportionate number of Covid-19 deaths in US

There's new evidence more African Americans may be dying from coronavirus in the United States than whites or other ethnic groups, according to a new study. Black Americans represent 13.4% of the population, according to the US Census Bureau, but counties with higher black populations account for more than half of all Covid-19 cases and almost 60% of deaths, the study found.

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  1. More African Americans live in poverty, unable to Social distance. Or they just choose not too

    1. That’s funny, cause all the images of people I see refusing to socially distance and even entering governing buildings with assault rifes to protest their right not to socially distance are white people.

    2. Ivares Kesner – uh duh! Bc living in poverty often means living in small cramped conditions w/multiple people; many of which are working in essential jobs like grocery stores, gas stations, etc. He actually stated that fact if u’d been listening to understand versus jumping to respond. The stereotype that the Black people catching & dying from COVID19 is due to not wearing face masks is absurd. It’s strictly correlated to crowded homes, working in essential jobs, & having comorbidity. Oh & in case y’all still don’t get it: DEPOPULATION AGENDA TARGETED AT BLACK PEOPLE & ELDERLY. WAKE UP!!

  2. I’m black, and it PAINS me so bad when I go out and see so many other black people NOT wearing mask.

    1. cjanitorialinc You mean all the whites we see protesting and beach hopping with no mask? Let me guess it will be black people at fault when the new wave hits in a few months?

    2. Desiree Salas Ha Ha and is that with all the diseases your family brings when they cross the border “undocumented”?

    3. @Paul Charles I thought we were discussing effectiveness of masks,not conspiracy theories.the mask is so the person wearing it doesn’t or greatly reduces amount of transmission.Like most of the asian countries.

  3. We don’t need a basketball player speaking for us. Where are the doctors? Magic, I love you but stay in your lane.

    1. @daddylongdreads You mean the virus that causes AIDS, right? HIV is the virus itself and AIDS is what happens when it permanently damages your immune systen.

    2. There’s a old man from the show apprentice who’s speaking for the country. A well known business mogul, former basketball player speaking for a group of people doesn’t sound too insane

    3. @Mike Laing They arent really socialist at all, not in any definition of the word. Not even democratic socialists (I am one, I would know). You should do some reading on socialism because you are definitely showing your ignorance here. However, you are right that they aren’t team bernie. But, that’s more than expected considering he isnt really a democrat (he’s an independent) and takes things much further down the welfare state path than most democrats would be comfortable with. It’s obvious why they would want to support one of their own.

      It’s not nearly as bad as republicans cancelling primaries and caucuses for Trump, though. That’s majorly fucked up. They at least went through the democratic process with Bernie, can’t say the same about Republicans and challengers to Trump.

      Also, you are calling democrats the establishment? I’m pretty sure you mean “establishment democrats”. Honestly, while I dislike candidates beholden to lobbying groups and big business, Republicans have their own establishment as well and in general have greater reliance on funds from big business and lobbyists. Not to mention the insane anount of tax breaks that Trump has given big business for seemingly no reason.

      I’m not a democrat, but I’d take then any day over republicans with their over-religious, populist, and trumpist sentiments that are happening. I could see myself voting conservative if the dem candidate was corrupt, but sll signs point to Trump right now as the perpetrator of that sort of thing in recent times. Dude has like 5 whistle blowers in the past 6 months, can barely speak english and is telling people it might be beneficial to mainline disinfectants. I’d take an establishment democrat over that 10/10 times.

    4. @Mike Laing The 5 eyes say it almost certainly came from a market. Why are you set on it comming from a lab in China? I find it absolutely bizzare how folks latch onto crazy ideas and stay with them despite the evidence

  4. cnn/ccp is actually saying basketball players are black advisors. Seek knowledge to escape slavery.

    1. @TripleBEAMM X Africa was never annexed, many areas of Africa were colonized, an colonization actually brought many good things to Africa, such as railroads, infrastructure, advanced western technologies, and Europeans even brought farming techniques that turned barren land into lush areas with plenty of food to be had there is a reason Rhodesia was once called the breadbasket of Africa tho if you were to look today you would never know,

    2. @TripleBEAMM X so if you’re intrested in knowledge do yourself a favor and research classical liberalism and classical progressivism, they have a different meaning then what it has become identified with today, many western Nations are actually more multicultural then eastern nations which are predominantly homogeneous, so yes western societies are more open and inviting to forgien cultures due to our common foundations in judeo Christian values and even tho many people no longer are religious in our society our values and perceptions are still heavily influenced by the scope of our foundation.

    3. @Robert Moya yea I’ll say predominantly homogenous, most asian, middle eastern, and African nations are over 90% ethnically native. Cultural and ethnic diversity is pretty much an exclusively western thing.

    1. He’s deceiving the masses . Easy catch , unless you have a serious cognitive dissonance issue you’d see through the race baiting and hate . Good luck to you

    1. This whole thread makes me ashamed and embarrassed to be white!!! Please know there are white people in this country who do not think this way at all Ever!!!!!

    1. He wears a mask when he’s playng Zorro, The Gay blade with his gay buddies.

    1. Also I’m sure blacks and hispanics living in urban and densly populated areas is a reason… But no cnn needs to race bait.

    2. I’ll have to point you to the Liberal Minority Playbook. Black issues deal with discrimination. Hispanic issues deal with immigration. Please stick with the playbook’s format.

  5. Stop drinking smoking weed that’s putting high risk to covid 19 through African Americans

  6. I’m so glad to get a opinion about the virus from a guy who used to throw a ball into a hole for money and got a different kind of virus (AIDS)

  7. *”Rich people are just as likely to catch CORONAVIRUS as black people”* Joe Biden

    1. But you don’t get the virus if you’re rich and black. Don and Magic are here to set us straight on that 😂

    2. But Nancy’s OK. She has minions hoarding icecream for her so she never has to go out.

    1. @Larry Scary the mayor of Chicago who is exempt from visiting a non-essential hair salon

    2. Oscar Gonzalez yea and the huge number of willfully ignorant white beach goers and protesters. Do you speak on that too?

    3. @C Gibson I don’t discriminate. The subject of the video is African Americans, not whites. If they talked about other races, then I would comment on them as well. FYI, the beaches were full of multi race people!

    1. WP.. Passing the blunt, enjoying “Klan rallies” under the disguise of protest, flocking to the beach and other social activities but hey single out the blacks because god forbid whites take responsibility for their actions without blaming black people.

    2. @J. J. But ummm…. the video is about the disproportionate effect on black communities. Were you paying attention? There’s a quiz at the end…

    1. Just out of curiosity, which people are you talking about? AFAIK, the only one touting snake oil cures is Drumpf, and he’s mostly trying to deny that there’s anything to be worried about.

    2. Bob James the pharmaceutical companies fund the media, every other add is a drug. The media is selling their drugs. Billions of dollars to be made.

  8. most the deaths are in democrat states …….. think of it that………. 90 percent in democrat states?

    1. Yes they are democrat states with most deaths most money problems before the virus 19 this news site does not bring up facts cnn

    1. COVID-19 exposes the consequence of generations of racial discrimination and inequality aimed at one group of people by another.

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