6 times as deadly: COVID-19's brutal impact on Black people in D.C.
If Black Americans were dying at an equal rate to white Americans from the coronavirus, at least 13,000 Black lives would have been spared, according to Andi Egbert with the APM Research Lab. See the original WJLA report here. A report compiled by the non-partisan research group found that as of May 27, 2020, Black Americans were more than twice as likely to die of COVID-19 than whites, Latinos and Asian Americans. Egbert says that, at the start of their research, only seven states were reporting race in their coronavirus data, but that existing health disparities among races motivated them to begin processing the numbers. If Black Americans were dying at an equal rate to white Americans from coronavirus, at least 13,000 Black lives would have been spared. “From the beginning of our reporting, back less than two months ago we had lost about 15,000 Americans to the virus, now as we all know we've exceeded 100,000 lives lost," Egbert says. "But the deep inequities, espec...