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Signs COVID-19 is Disproportionately Impacting African Americans Grow Larger

Senior citizens use social distancing while lined up for the early opening of a supermarket on for seniors only. The US government has called for social distancing to slow the spread of the Covid 19 virus. This is at a Publix supermarket in Cocoa, Florida, which opened at 7:00 am for seniors 65 and over. Some are wearing surgical masks. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)NNPA NEWSWIRE — “States MUST start tracking and reporting race data in connection with #Covid_19. As of Friday morning, African Americans made up almost half of Milwaukee County’s 945 #Covid_19cases and 81% of all 27 deaths in a county whose population is 26% Black,” wrote attorney Kristen Clarke of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on April 3rd.

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