Blacks & Covid-19

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Blacks & Covid-19
Blacks & Covid-19

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The vulnerability of African Americans to the coronavirus is a national emergency

“The most difficult social problem in the matter of Negro health”, wrote the sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois in 1899, was to understand why so few white Americans were bothered by it. The poor black lives Du Bois described in his pioneering study, “The Philadelphia Negro”, were spent “in the most unhealthy parts of the city and in the worst houses”, with minimal medical attention. They tended to be sickly and short. Yet he could think of “few other cases in the history of civilised peoples where human suffering has been viewed with such peculiar indifference.”

Modern medicine has since transformed the life expectancy of all Americans. But many of the disparities Du Bois observed remain.…

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 The vulnerability of African Americans to the coronavirus is a national emergency

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