jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The story of the second year of the pandemic is a story of white mortality rates increasing without a marked decline in Black and Hispanic mortality rates,” Stokes said. “The [racial] disparities declined in the second year, but not because rates improved noticeably for Black and Hispanic populations. It was more that white death rates got worse due to partisanship and misinformation.”