Blacks, Latinos in NYC disproportionately fall victim to coronavirus
Nearly two in three New Yorkers who've died from coronavirus have been black or Latino, Mayor Bill de Blasio reported for the first time on Wednesday, underscoring grave disparities in the city's outbreak.
"The death it's causing tracks with other profound health care disparities we have seen for years and decades in this city," said de Blasio, who faced increasing pressure from local community leaders to release data on race.
"We have to fight in new ways what is now a documented disparity," he said during his daily news conference.
The preliminary data on racial demographics show the disease has hit Latinos the hardest. Of those who've died in the city from the virus, 34% were Latino, 28% were black, 27% were white and 7% were Asian, said de Blasio, as he laid out a four-point plan to try to address the inequity. As of Wednesday morning, around 80,000 people in the city have been diagnosed with coronavirus and 3,602 have died.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/blacks-latinos-in-nyc-disproportionately-fall-victim-to-coronavirus-2020-04-08 We allz we fuckin GOT.
