Does Covid Discriminate?

Such disparities were the rule in Michigan, too, where blacks make up 15 percent of the overall population but 31 percent of the cases-and 41 percent of the deaths.

As of early May, African-Americans were half of Chicago's Covid deaths while making up only 30 percent of the population.

Sweden's racial Covid gap was a silent rebuttal to the country's proudly egalitarian self-image.

So why the apparent Covid racial animus in countries with no history of Jim Crow or redlining, countries committed to multiculturalism and generous safety nets? Experts in every country, including the U.S., point to the same factors.

In 2019, only 2 percent of whites described their household type as "Other, with dependent children," compared with 11 percent of Asians and 7 percent of blacks.

A 2017 OECD report calculated that 31.5 percent of the country's housing arrangements for the lowest 20 percent of earners were overcrowded.

The best study illustrating the minority / service job / Covid nexus in the U.S. comes from San Francisco's Mission District, one of the most densely concentrated Hispanic neighborhoods in the city; a full 58 percent of its residents are Hispanic, and 34 percent are white.

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