COVID-19 pandemic does not discriminate against its victims.Minority communities, including Black, Latinx and Indigenous, have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
Heart disease, obesity and hypertension are more prevalent among these groups, increasing the risk of contracting the virus, and suffering from sometimes fatal complications.This novel-coronavirus outbreak has compounded those problems, and has created new economic ones.
How the coronavirus pandemic is affecting food security in Canada At the height of the pandemic, more than 40 million Americans lost their jobs.