Systemic Racism Is Killing Black People During the Pandemic

Coronavirus exacerbated already existing racial health disparities. Here’s what needs to be done.

Erika Stallings
Elemental
Published in
6 min readMay 27, 2020

--

A photo from the back of a black man wearing a face mask looking out his window.
Photo: Maurian Soares Salvador/Getty Images

As Covid-19 infections continue spreading across the country, it’s become clear that the burden of coronavirus is not being felt equally across racial lines. According to CDC data on Covid-19…

--

--