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Harvard Researchers Find 'Inequality On Top Of Inequality' In COVID-19 Deaths

By studying the number of all current deaths compared to those in previous years, researchers have found that high-poverty, crowded areas where people of color live have been hard hit by the pandemic.
People wait in line to get food distributed by the National Guard in Chelsea, Mass., on April 16. Harvard researchers found areas with more poverty, people of color and crowded housing had higher mortality rates for the coronavirus.

Much is still unknown about the coronavirus, including a full picture of perhaps its most important impact: who it has killed.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that "current data suggest a disproportionate burden of illness and death among racial and ethnic minority groups." The, because not everyone who dies of COVID-19 is counted under that cause of death, among other reasons.

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