Public Health 101: Why do Minorities Have a Higher COVID19 Infection and Death Rate?

Maria Rebello-Valdez, MPH
5 min readAug 20, 2020
https://insights.dice.com/2020/06/17/how-apple-google-twitter-youtube-pushing-racial-equality/

The novel Coronavirus or COVID19 has shown no mercy in the U.S, with a grappling 175,00 lives lost from COVID19 and almost 6 million people infected in the U.S in a mere 5 months. We have seen the virus infect all types of people across the country, but we have seen it infect some people more than others, particularly the minority population. When…

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Maria Rebello-Valdez, MPH

Contributor writer for Medium and former contributor writer for HuffPost. I focus on disparities in education and medicine. #Latina #Hispana #Medicine