If COVID-19 kills an additional 1 million White Americans, the numbers will match a grim stat.<br />It would reduce their average life expectancy to levels seen by Black Americans.<br />However, these number are seen by Black Americans during non-pandemic years, says UPI.<br />"Black Americans experience a scale of extra death every year that is more than the excess deaths that Whites are likely to experience from COVID-19," said Wrigley-Field, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota.<br />The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analysis reveals the scope of "another U.S. catastrophe".<br />It highlights the reality of the "pandemic-scale problem" of racial inequality, says UPI.
