William “Sandy” Darity, a professor of public policy, African and African-American studies and economics at Duke University, said a national health insurance program is needed.

“One of the factors [of the virus disparity] is associated with the deep historical residue of health disadvantage that already was embedding itself in the black community, particularly in respect to what people now refer to as pre-existing conditions. So they are more vulnerable,” Darity said.

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