Coronavirus is not the 'great equalizer'—race matters
Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - 09:40
in Psychology & Sociology
One of the first stories to use race-based data to talk about the risk that Black communities face because of COVID-19 came on March 30 from the Charlotte Observer. The article said Black residents in Mecklenburg County, in Charlotte, N.C., accounted for 43.9 percent of the 303 confirmed COVID-19 cases locally, but Black residents make up only 32.9 percent of the county's population.