Even amid a pandemic, life expectancy among White people in the United States far exceeds what Black people have experienced every year, according to new research.
The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, used national life expectancy data and demographic models to estimate how many White deaths from Covid-19 would be needed for the White death rate in 2020 to reach the levels of the year with the lowest Black death rate ever recorded, which was in 2014.
"Regarding mortality during a pandemic," Nafiu continued,"Black and other minorities are more likely to be frontline workers and often do not have the option of staying at home."This brief report is another clarion call to America that some of her children are dying at a disproportionately higher rate than others and like all nurturing mothers, America needs to swing into action to provide for and protect all her own.
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