> Black children were twice as likely to have lost a parent to COVID than white ones, and Indigenous children, five times as likely. Older, sicker, poorer, Blac

> Black children were twice as likely to have lost a parent to COVID than white ones, and Indigenous children, five times as likely. Older, sicker, poorer, Blacker or browner, the people killed by COVID were treated as marginally in death as they were in life. Accepting their losses comes easily to “a society that places a hierarchy on the value of human life, which is absolutely what America is built on,” Debra Furr-Holden, an epidemiologist at the Michigan State University, told me. This is just silly. Of course older and sicker people died more often, this just simply could not be avoided. And black vaccination rate was very low in the US [1]. The article tries to make the case that the US is somehow neglecting COVID due to prejudice, but most countries in the world are going in the same direction as them, removing mask mandates and generally returning to normalcy. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/us-vaccine-demographics.html https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...