The Long History of Redlining Makes Covid-19 Worse for Black Americans

Health effects of racist housing policy persist 80 years later

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
2 min readSep 10, 2020

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The data makes it painfully clear that Black Americans have been hit hardest by the coronavirus. Black people in the U.S., according to the Covid Racial Data Tracker, are dying at a rate 2.4 times higher than that of white people. In June…

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.