{"id":1559,"date":"2021-02-19T04:36:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T04:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2021-02-19T04:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T04:36:10","slug":"study-says-reparations-before-pandemic-could-have-significantly-reduced-covid-19-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":"Study says reparations before pandemic could have significantly reduced COVID-19 spread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Americans are suffering disproportionately from COVID-19 compared to white Americans. A new study, published Feb. 9 in\u00a0Social Science & Medicine<\/a>, suggests that if reparations for Black Americans had been made before the COVID-19 pandemic, the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the overall population could have been reduced by 31 to 68 percent. (Related: The Biden administration backs studying reparations<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Duke professor William A. Darity is a co-author of the study, along with researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe demonstrate that had a program of reparations for Black American descendants of U.S. slavery been enacted prior to the pandemic — had the nation already closed the racial wealth gap — infection rates and mortality would have been dramatically lower not only for Black Americans but for all Americans,\u201d Darity says.<\/p>\n

Darity is available to comment further through Twitter:\u00a0@sandydarity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Study is available at the following links:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0277953621000733<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.socscimed.2021.113741<\/a><\/p>\n

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