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Collected Item: “The Virus Is Showing Black People What They Knew All Along”

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The Virus Is Showing Black People What They Knew All Along

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text story

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

In this article, author Patrice Peck discusses how black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at 1.7 times the rate of whites. In her words "19,000 Black people would still be alive if not for systemic racism."

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Health Equity, systemic, racism, black, race, healthcare, vaccine, frontline, essential worker, death

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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/pandemic-black-death-toll-racism/617460/

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Patrice Peck

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2020-12-22
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