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Black Women Are Dying of COVID at Much Higher Rates Than White Men

The analysis by Harvard′s GenderSci Lab found that COVID death rates among Black women are nearly four times higher than those for white men; three times higher than for Asian men; and also higher than for white and Asian women. COVID death rates among Black men are far higher than for any other sex and racial group — including more than six times higher than for white men. The difference in death rates between Black women and white women is more than triple that between white men and white women, the study found.