Health Equity

Black women 3 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than White men

Abstract: New medical findings challenge conventional wisdom that biological differences between the sexes drive death rates.

Publication: CBS News

Date Published: April 8, 2021

Author(s): Kate Gibson

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