Greetings!
Although the team is limiting its ventures outside of our home bases of Culver City, Chelsea, Michigan, Palm Springs, the Philly suburbs, and visiting the farm in Iowa; on Zoom, in phone calls, and at socially-distant events we hear time and again, “Yet I know so few who are sick.” On Monday, the FT published the article “Coronavirus fuels black America's sense of Injustice,” which reports that “When protests erupted in the US in response to the killing of George Floyd on May 25, the anger over police brutality was also fueled by a sense of simmering injustice over the impact of coronavirus.”
Reporting from APM Research Labs found “aggregated deaths from COVID-19 in these 40 states and the District of Columbia have reached new highs for all groups,” stating:
- 1 in 1,850 Black Americans has died (or 54.6 deaths per 100,000)
- 1 in 4,000 Latinos has died (or 24.9 deaths per 100,000)
- 1 in 4,200 Asian Americans has died (or 24.3 deaths per 100,000)
- 1 in 4,400 White Americans has died (or 22.7 deaths per 100,000)
The State of California, approximately 10 percent of the U.S. population, has slowed the death and infection rate, yet these rates still show inequality:
- Black Americans make up 6 percent of the population and 10 percent of deaths
- Latinos make up 38.9 percent of the population and 39.2 percent of deaths
- Asian Americans makeup 15.7 percent of the population and 15.4 percent of deaths
- White Americans makeup 36.6 percent of the population and 33.6 percent of deaths
Nationally, the elderly and immunocompromised are most likely to be infected; approximately 35 percent of the COVID death are in Skilled Nursing Facilities; in California, as of June 10 51 percent of the COVID deaths were in SNFs.
