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Racial Disparities
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Black Americans
ProPublica conducted an analysis of the racial composition of COVID-19 cases in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, dating through the morning of April 3. They noted that African Americans comprised nearly half the county's cases and 22 of its 27 deaths.

Similar trends have been seen in regions with sizable African American populations, especially in Deep South states such as Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana (which reported on April6 that 70% of its reported deaths had involved African Americans); in Michigan (33% of cases and 41% of deaths as of April 6); in the city of Richmond, Virginia (48% of the city population, 62% of cases, and 100% of its eight deaths as of April 15) and the city of Chicago, Illinois (1,824 of its 4,680 confirmed cases and 72% of deaths as of April 5). It has been acknowledged that African Americans were more likely to have poor living conditions (including dense urban environments and poverty), employment instability, chronic comorbidities influenced by these conditions, and little to no health insurance coverage—factors which can all exacerbate its impact. It is also noted that Black Americans are in many states more likely to be "essential workers", people working in jobs that can't work from home during stay-at-home orders. Which puts them at higher exposure to the virus.

The CDC has not yet released national data on coronavirus cases based on race; following calls by Democratic lawmakers and the Congressional Black Caucus, the CDC told The Hill it planned to release data on racial composition of cases.

[Originally in Indigenous Americans move this line]:On July 20, the Strike for Black Lives was held, with organizers citing racial disparities during the pandemic as a cause of the strike.

Indigenous Americans [your content contributes to this subsection]
While Native Americans make up approximately 7% of the U.S. population, the COVID-19 infection rate was twice the national average in the eight counties with the highest indigenous populations. Additionally, the Navajo Nation had the highest rate of infection in the United States, surpassing New York state late May. However, it is difficult to pinpoint the exact statistic due to a severe lack of race and ethnicity data in local hospitals.

It has been determined that Native Americans who have contracted the virus have had a worse prognosis than other groups. A higher rate of non-elderly Indigenous Americans are at risk of developing a serious illness from COVID-19 than any other ethnic group. In addition, when accounting for age, Indigenous Americans are found to have died of COVID-19 3.1 times more than white Americans.

Native Americans who live on reservations are more vulnerable to COVID-19 due to crowded housing conditions, underfunded access to health care, food and water insecurity, and underlying health conditions. In response to the outbreak of COVID-19, Navajo reservation ordered all members to wear masks in public, instilled isolation protocols, and banned unnecessary travel. A significant portion of households on the Navajo reservation do not have access to running water or electricity which makes it difficult for residents to comply with sanitation recommendations. Food security is an issue that has been exacerbated by the pandemic, due to price-gouging during times of crisis resulting from issues with transportation of goods to the geographically remote reservations. There has also been a reported increase in rape, sexual assault, and family violence in Native American communities since the start of the pandemic. Native American communities across the country have experienced a disruption of cultural practices due to lockdown and social distancing.

A total of $208.7 Million went to tribal medical assistance from the CDC. Because the previous Census undercounted many residents on reservation land, reservations have lacked federal funding to combat the COVID pandemic. The pandemic continued the trend of undercounting, as the 2020 Census wrapped up counting on Oct. 15 and disproportionately left out Native American households. Federal aid reserved for native tribes also sparked conflict. The tribe stimulus package allowed corporations serving natives to apply for aid rather than fully allocating them to tribal governments, which implicates companies as tribal authorities.

Latinx Americans
In Houston, as well as elsewhere in Texas, Hispanic Americans have been heavily impacted by COVID-19. This is in part because a lot of them are in essential work, much like Black Americans, and live in traditionally multi-generational households, language barriers, and them having low percentage health insurance compared to other ethnicites in the U.S. Additionally, a sizable amount of Hispanics are undocumented immigrants and fear for their immigration status, especially under the Trump presidency which promises hardline immigration laws make it harder for them to seek medical care.

Filipino Americans
Additionally, Filipino Americans have been impacted perhaps by COVID-19 more than any ethnic community in the United States, in part because of a high percentage of healthcare workers, as many Filipino-Americans are nurses in critical care and emergency rooms, also they have a higher percentage of essential workers than Blacks and Hispanics.

[maybe make this into part of the lead for this section] Aside from these direct health inequities, broader social inequities are a growing effect of the COVID crisis. For instance, amid school closures families are grappling with layered risks of virus risk, income loss, grief, food insecurity, unhealthy environments, learning delay, isolation, lack of information, and more - crumbling or absent public systems risk a new white flight and entrenched segregation for years to come.

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