Racism and the COVID-19 pandemic – Explain how racism operates through the COVID-19 pandemic in the ways listed below.

Be sure to:

include death rates verses infection rates in particular places,
explain the status of “essential workers” in relation to race
include examples of essential workers and their stories
explain how South Africa illustrate that prejudice in a society causes the virus to harm one class of people more than another.

express why this issue is important to you personally, or, if not, why it is not
Use the following sources and three other articles of your choice that meet the criteria below.
https://covidtracking.com/race

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/30/865413079/what-do-coronavirus-racial-disparities-look-like-state-by-state

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/5/27/the_covid_racial_data_tracker

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/8/racial_disparities_healthcare_coronavirus

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/5/12/chicago_70_black_people_dead_first

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/race-ethnicity.html

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/22/california_covid_19_latinx_community

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/22/south_africa

Racism and the COVID-19 pandemic – Explain how racism operates through the COVID-19 pandemic

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