Recent reporting shows Native American communities have also been hit hard by the disease, and in New York City, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., Latinx residents face the highest coronavirus death rates (it should be noted that this number likely includes a substantial number of black people, since the city is home to so many Afro-Latinx).
Systemic problems require a suite of solutions, both large and small-scale. Experts who spoke to The Root in March suggested dedicated coronavirus hotlines, direct outreach and care sent to neighborhoods that are considered "medical deserts," and reducing air pollution in the communities that already face high cancer and asthma rates (air pollution has been shown to make COVID-19 much more deadly—the Trump administration has continued to relax those industry pollution guidelines during the pandemic).
Those are the kinds of solutions the Trump administration needs to be talking about, ones that target the systemic problems that have actually made the virus so deadly in the black community. Not this putting down that can of beer for "big mama" nonsense.
