A study confirms that the pandemic hit Black Americans, Native Americans and Latinos far harder than Whites early on
People from these groups were more likely to die from all causes -- Covid-19 and others -- than were Whites and Asians, the National Cancer Institute-led team said."An estimated 2.88 million deaths occurred between March and December 2020. Compared with the number of expected deaths based on 2019 data, 477,200 excess deaths occurred during this period, with 74% attributed to COVID-19," they wrote in their report, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
"The steady progress over the past 20 years in decreasing the mortality gap between Black and White persons has been rapidly eliminated by the COVID-19 pandemic and is likely to worsen as the full effect of the pandemic becomes apparent."
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