Study confirms pandemic hit Black Americans, Native Americans and Latinos harder than Whites
CNN
A study published Monday confirms that the pandemic hit Black Americans, Native Americans and Latinos far harder than Whites early on, killing greater proportions of these groups.
People from these groups were more likely to die from all causes -- Covid-19 and others -- than were Whites and Asians, the National Cancer Institute-led team said.
"An estimated 2.88 million deaths occurred between March and December 2020. Compared with the number of expected deaths based on 2019 data, 477,200 excess deaths occurred during this period, with 74% attributed to COVID-19," they wrote in their report, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Thursday morning will send a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland referring a potential criminal case involving former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the Department of Justice, alleging he lied to Congress.