An alarmingly disproportionate number of black Americans are dying from the coronavirus, more and more research shows

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• Black Americans are getting COVID-19 and dying at disproportionately high rates, a growing body of research suggests.
• A new report shows that counties in which at least 13% of residents are black — which make up 22% of all US counties — account for more than half of reported coronavirus deaths and cases.
• Two recent CDC studies also reveal that black Americans have higher hospitalization rates than would be expected for their share of the US population.
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More and more evidence is revealing the disproportionate toll COVID-19 is taking on black Americans.

A new report published Tuesday by researchers at amfAR, a non-profit focused on AIDS research, found that US counties in which at least a 13% of the population is black account for 58% of COVID-19 deaths and 52% of cases nationwide.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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