According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly three times as many non-Hispanic Black individuals have died of the disease than their white non-Hispanic counterparts, laying bare long-standing inequities in the U.S.
healthcare system.Now, a study published in the journal Socius has found that the pandemic has also taken its greatest economic toll on low-income Black communities in the country.“Media coverage has focused on the racially disparate effects of COVID-19 as a disease,” explains study co-author Adam Goldstein, an assistant professor of sociology at The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, in New Jersey.