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The Pandemic Could Lead to More Discrimination against Black People

4/23/2020 by : Amy R. Krosch , Scientific American Blog Network

African-Americans are already afflicted disproportionately by COVID-19, but economic collapse could make things even worse, writes Amy Krosch, assistant professor of psychology, in an op-ed in Scientific American Blog Network."Ventilator shortages are looming, and unemployment in the United States has surged to the highest levels since the Great Depression," she writes in the article. "As doctors…