04-06-2020, 04:39 PM
An ominous trend:
More than half of Chicago’s coronavirus cases are in African American community, city officials say
(Chicago Tribune)
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Chicago public health commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady outlined the city’s grim coronavirus statistics along racial lines. Although only 30% of the city is black, more than half of Chicago’s COVID-19 cases have hit African Americans, and 72% of the dead were black, Arwady said.
That’s driven in part by already-existing inequities, Arwady said. In Chicago, there’s an 8.8 year life expectancy gap between white and black residents, largely driven by chronic disease, she said.
But it’s also driven by economic disinvestment and other issues on the city’s South and West Sides, Arwady said.
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More than half of Chicago’s coronavirus cases are in African American community, city officials say
(Chicago Tribune)
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Chicago public health commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady outlined the city’s grim coronavirus statistics along racial lines. Although only 30% of the city is black, more than half of Chicago’s COVID-19 cases have hit African Americans, and 72% of the dead were black, Arwady said.
That’s driven in part by already-existing inequities, Arwady said. In Chicago, there’s an 8.8 year life expectancy gap between white and black residents, largely driven by chronic disease, she said.
But it’s also driven by economic disinvestment and other issues on the city’s South and West Sides, Arwady said.
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