Black & brown kids majority of COVID-19 deaths
Coronavirus chaos, Obama’s memoir arrives Nov. 17
47 days until Election Day.
After initially postponing its fall football season to spring 2021, the Big 10 conference announced that college football will resume on October 24.
Sports columnist Christine Brennan calls the decision the “darkest day” in the history of the Big 10:
Just as the Big Ten was looking smarter by the day as COVID-19 outbreaks popped up at Michigan State, Wisconsin and Maryland while other conferences playing football announced COVID-related postponements and soaring cases, the league’s presidents reversed themselves and decided to steer their schools and their football programs right into the teeth of what are predicted to be some of the worst days of the pandemic in October and November.
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🚨 Majority of kids who die of coronavirus are Hispanic, Black, or Native American, CDC finds
“Researchers found there was a staggering racial disparity in the more than 390,000 coronavirus cases and 121 deaths among people under the age of 21 reported to the CDC between Feb. 12 and July 31.”
“Hispanic, Black and Native American children accounted for 78% of those deaths even though those groups represent just 41% of the United States population, a disproportionate effect that reflects a similar disparity among adults. Previous research has shown that the death toll from COVID-19 is twice as high for people of color under the age of 65 as it is for white Americans.”
(USA TODAY)
What COVID has done is really shone a spotlight on these long-standing health disparities that affect children and people of color in our society. I truly hope that this is a call to action, that we as a society come together to really try to mitigate these disparities by addressing those root causes.
- Dr. Monika Goyal
🦠 Coronavirus chaos
WaPo: CDC director says coronavirus vaccines won’t be widely available till the middle of next year
NPR: Contradicting The CDC, Trump Says COVID-19 Vaccine Could Be Ready By End Of Year
Forbes: 1,293 Dead: US Has Highest 1-Day Covid-19 Death Toll Since August
Pew: U.S. Image Plummets Internationally as Most Say Country Has Handled Coronavirus Badly
📚 Obama’s Memoir ‘A Promised Land’ Coming in November
“The 768-page book, ‘A Promised Land,’ will be the first of two volumes, this one encompassing parts of his early political life, his presidential campaign in 2008 and ending with the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011. It will be released around the world on Nov. 17 in 25 languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Czech, Finnish and Vietnamese.”
(New York Times)