Black and Latino Americans more likely to die from coronavirus, study finds

An academic analysis in the US has shown African-Americans are 3.5 times more likely to die than whites from Covid-19.The study, which has not been peer reviewed, also found mortality among US Latino people to be nearly twice as high as that for the white population. The paper, by researchers from Yale, the University of Pittsburgh and Tufts University, was uploaded to the preprint site Medrxiv.org last week.Previous studies have suggested similar results but the latest research adjusted the…

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