Soon after the coronavirus arrived in the United States, the racial inequities of its devastating toll became apparent: Black people were dying at twice the rate of whites. The data shocked some Americans. Others panicked. The role that race and ethnicity play in Americans’ health outcomes became headline news as the numbers were broadcast across […]
Margo Snipe
Margo Snipe is a health reporter at Capital B. Twitter @margoasnipe
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All About Margo Snipe, National Health Reporter
What I do at Capital B I’m the national health reporter at Capital B. I cover critical issues affecting the mental and physical health of Black people across the country. I dig into how racial bias in medicine impacts our lives and investigate inequities in the American health care system. Why I came to Capital […]
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The Reading List: Black Communities and COVID-19
Not long after the first COVID-19 case was detected in the United States, the virus began to devastate Black families. Black Americans are nearly three times as likely to be hospitalized due to the virus than white Americans, and twice as likely to die, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control […]