healthcare disparities
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The 'Urban' Legend of COVID-19: SC Data Shows Coronavirus Also Ravages Rural Black Communities
Newly released data on COVID-19 infections and deaths in South Carolina reveals that the global pandemic seems to be disproportionately targeting the state’s rural black residents in the same way it has targeted non-white people in more populous states. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) meticulously compiled the state’s COVID-19 numbers,…