People line up to receive COVID-19 tests on Times Square in New York, the United States, Feb. 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- People of color were dying from the coronavirus at "far higher rates" than white people in 2020, which revealed in very stark ways that racial disparities and racism were alive and well in the United States, U.S. magazine Scientific American has reported.
People of color in the country had the jobs that exposed them to infections, the comorbidity that made them more likely to get very sick and less able to to access quality health care than white Americans, the report said.
Not only was the structural racism in American society displayed in all its hideousness, but people were dissecting and debating it across social media in a way that had been never possible before, it added. ■
