Black Americans are becoming infected with the coronavirus at a rate 3 times that of whites and they are twice as likely to die from COVID-19, according to a new report from the National Urban League.
, provided by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity and included in the Urban League's report, shows that the coronavirus infection rate for Blacks is 62 per 10,000, compared with 23 per 10,000 for whites. Latinos fared even worse, with 73 infections per 10,000.
Further,"Black people with COVID-19 symptoms in February and March were less likely to get tested or treated than white patients," Morial wrote in a"Studies showed that doctors downplayed Black patients' complaints of pain, prescribed weaker pain medication and withheld cardiac treatments from Black patients who needed them," he said.
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