15July 2020

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In cities throughout the county, Black people have been most likely than their white neighbors to end up being ill and die from the coronavirus. Public health professionals have actually blamed this gap on the historical disparities in general health in between Black and white Americans.
Perhaps no city shows this pattern more starkly than Washington, D.C., where the coronavirus has actually eliminated Black residents at 5.9 times the rate of white people– a disparity that's worse than any other huge city in America with published group data.
The unequal toll of the pandemic shows the unequal conditions that divide Washington, D.C. Black locals of the nation's capital have a life span that's 14.9 years much shorter than white people, the biggest space of any of America's most populous counties.
Under financial restraints from Congress, the local government hasn't done much to deal with those racial injustices throughout the years. And it was even slower to react when COVID-19 included another health risk for Black homeowners.
To date, Black people comprise 74% of the District's 568 deaths, although they comprise just 46% of the city's population, according to an investigation by APM Reports.