Article by Andi Egbert and Kristine Liao. APM Research Lab.
December 21, 2020.
Over the course of the year, COVID-19 has decimated cities, devastated families, shuttered stores, evaporated jobs, tore through towns, cancelled weddings, sidelined performers, depleted health care workers, upended schools, ambushed nursing homes, pounced upon prisoners, emptied cupboards, filled hospitals and overrun morgues. It has made most of us cover our faces. It has made many of us cover our eyes, weeping with grief. It has stolen all of the future birthdays from more than 315,000 Americans (a figure that will likely exceed 350,000 before the 2020 calendar ends). Since April, the APM Research Lab’s Color of Coronavirus project has documented these lives lost to COVID-19 by racial and ethnic group, and revealed the stark inequities in the likelihood of dying.
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