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With the U.S.’s history of institutional, structural, and medical racism, it is unsurprising that communities of color are being hit the hardest by COVID-19. In Louisiana, black people make up one third of the population but 70% of coronavirus deaths; in Michigan, black people make up 14% of the population but 40% of deaths. Meanwhile, American Indians face health disparities which make them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, at the same time that they are facing health services funding disparities. Time to get to work.
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