COVID-19 is the third leading cause of death among black Americans, according to a new report by the Brookings Institution, according to the WTOP subsidiary of CBS Radio Washington, D.C. Only central disease and cancer are the most sensitive to the new coronavirus.
One of the main contributing points is that black Americans live disproportionately in states that have evolved to Medicaid, according to the report.
“If I told you on January 1 that a new virus that we didn’t even know existed would be the third leading cause of death among black Americans in August, our hair would have burned and we would have a public policy reaction to this unprecedented pandemic. Trevon Logan, professor of economics at Ohio State University and co-author of the report, said.
Logan said the extent of the damage had gone unnoticed in large part, in part because the maximum states had been almost quarantined since March.
Bradley Hardy, another study member, says more than 50% of black Americans live in a family where the source of employment income has been lost since mid-March and 20% of families live with some form of eating difficulties.
He said black families only face pre-existing fitness problems, but also pre-existing economic disparities.
Hardy said almost part of the black families were involved in his ability to pay the monthly rent.
“Not only is there a well-documented source of income gaps, but there are also huge wealth gaps,” which means little or no emergency savings to cushion an economic impact.
“Black families don’t necessarily have that resource or mattress to rely on.”
The report describes many tactics in which the pandemic has revealed how black Americans are affected by the virus.
Co-authors say political responses are to solve short- and long-term challenges.