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    What Coronavirus Exposes About America's Political Divide

    The virus is disproportionately affecting people of color, primarily in densely populated cities. This is where the urban-rural rift also comes into play — and, consequently, a political one.
    by Ron Elving Apr 12, 2020 5 minutes
    A woman wearing a mask crosses the street in Times Square in Manhattan on March 17 in New York City. The coronavirus outbreak has exposed racial divisions in the country — as well as geographic ones.

    Perhaps the last thing we needed in this hyper-partisan election year was another reminder of what divides us as a nation. Then the COVID-19 crisis arrived and gave us one.

    The virus is affecting everyone, in one way or another, but in terms of actual sickness and death, it is disproportionately afflicting people of color. So far, at least, it is afflicting primarily those people of color who live in the most densely populated core of our metropolitan centers.

    "People of color are more likely to live in densely packed areas and in multi-generational housing situations, which create higher risk for spread of highly contagious disease like COVID-19," said Dr. Jerome Adams, the U.S. surgeon general, at the White House briefing Friday.

    Adams has also noted that minorities are not more disposed to infection "biologically or genetically," but rather they were

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