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‘When America gets a cold, the African American community gets pneumonia’

Posted June 17th, 2020

It is said, “When America gets a cold, the African American community gets pneumonia.” The COVID-19 pandemic is proving that to be true. As the virus spreads across the country, it appears that it is impacting African Americans at a disproportionally high rate. In hot spots like New York, Detroit, New Orleans and Chicago, blacks are dying at alarmingly high rates.