Report: US Racial Inequality May Be As Deadly As COVID-19

Posted by Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity on September 1, 2020

Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, mortality rates and life expectancy are far better for white Americans than they are for Black people during normal, non-pandemic years, according to an analysis published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Read report: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/20/2014750117#ref-1

 

 

 

 


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