A larger number of Black households had to borrow money to get through the economic downturn brought by COVID-19, with roughly 46% of those who tapped their savings also taking out loans, while 28 ...

Here's what we can do about COVID-19's racial inequality. And across the country, Black people have made up 22% of all COVID-19 even though they represent just 12.7% of the population, according ...

According to the CDC, even though the racial breakdown from the population in the report was 59% white, 14% Latino and 18% black, 45% of hospitalized coronavirus patients were white and 8% were ...

Covid-19 has only magnified the systemic inequalities that persist in the United States. And nonwhite people, especially African-Americans, have been disproportionately affected.

Clinical encounter-level factors explained about half of the disparity in prescription rates. Encounter-level care delivery factors included access to rapid antigen tests and virtual care.

White Americans in fall 2020 were less likely to follow safety precautions after learning about the disproportionate impacts Covid-19 had on Black communities.

Those changes have been so profound that among the oldest Americans, white Covid death rates have recently exceeded those of Black people, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

A new report by The Washington Post examines the change in Covid-19 mortality that started in October 2021. From the beginning of the pandemic, the racial disparity between Black and white folks ...

For Part I of our ESSENCE Reports 3-part series, "COVID-19’s Impact on Black Communities," we turned our lens on the Black South and how histories of Black resistance and rebellion against White ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic slammed the U.S. in March 2020, and for months afterwards, Black people were at least three times more likely to die of COVID-19 than their white peers — but now white ...

White Americans in fall 2020 were less likely to follow safety precautions after learning about the disproportionate impacts ...