The survey includes responses from a national sample of 1,153 Black adults, along with a partially overlapping sample of 1,051 U.S. adults. Responses were collected online from June 9-14.
Thirty-one percent of Black Americans said they knew someone who died of COVID-19, compared to17 percent of Hispanic adults and 9 percent of white adults.
When asked if they knew someone who either died from COVID-19 or had symptoms, this figure expanded to 51 percent for Black adults. Overall, 39 percent of all U.S. adults reported the same.
“This pandemic has really unearthed … the ways these disparities should not be accepted and are not tolerable,” Joseph Betancourt, vice president and chief equity and inclusion officer at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital, told The Washington Post.
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