New study finds staggering racial disparities in COVID-19 cases in Mass.
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A slight increase in a city’s Black or Latino population is associated with hundreds more COVID-19 cases, a new study found.
While COVID-19's disproportionate toll on Black and Latino communities throughout Massachusetts has been well documented, this study is the first to quantify those disparities and explore the extent to which other demographic factors — including cities’ foreign-born non-citizen population, average household size, and essential worker population — explain racial and ethnic gaps.
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