COVID-19 kills far more people of color in the US. This isn't a matter of coincidence or poor choices — it's linked to systemic racism, experts say.
USA TODAY examined how policies have made Black, Asian, Hispanic and Indigenous Americans prime targets for COVID-19. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Here's what we found:
America's education and economic systems are still unequal: More people of color are essential workers directly in the path of the virus.
America's education and economic systems are still unequal: More people of color are essential workers directly in the path of the virus.
Decades of discrimination in housing concentrated many people of color into cramped neighborhoods, helping the virus spread. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Environmental policies designed by power brokers has poisoned the air they breathe, fueling cancers. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
The model minority myth was created to divide people of color and protect white supremacy. Now it's killing Asian Americans in San Francisco. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Few places in the world have been as scarred by the coronavirus pandemic as McKinley County, New Mexico. Centuries of systemic racism left the health care system there chronically underfunded, understaffed, ill-equipped and outdated. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Latino farmworkers were denied fair pay in this California county, leaving them and their families vulnerable to COVID-19. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
America's history of racism is itself a preexisting condition for COVID-19. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
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