Author

Grace A. Noppert

Grace A. Noppert

Grace A. Noppert is a postdoctoral scholar in epidemiology at the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

COMMENTARY

COVID-19 is hitting black and poor communities the hardest, underscoring fault lines in access and care for those on margins

By: - April 13, 2020

As the COVID-19 epidemic continues to ravage the American public, an unsurprising story emerges: Poor communities are hot spots for COVID transmission. The death rate from COVID-19 appears to be staggeringly high among African Americans compared to whites. The Washington Post reports, for example, that while 14% of the Michigan population is black, 40% of […]