Racism is the most significant underlying condition in the COVID-19 pandemic
African Americans have been historically and systematically denied access to the health-promoting resources needed to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ethel Watts, 80, makes the half-mile walk home with fresh groceries from a food distribution site at St. Sabina Catholic Church in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Auburn Gresham has faced hard times before. Guns are easy to find. Fresh produce isn’t. Poverty hovers around 20%. But there’s never been anything like this: A once-in-a-century epidemic in a community without a hospital. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
