Crises have lasted longest in Black communities. Bostonians worry that COVID-19 will be no different
The Great Depression. The AIDS epidemic. The 2008 recession.
Time and time again, health and financial crises that devastated the country as a whole have had uniquely disastrous and long-lasting effects on Black communities.
All signs point to COVID-19, a combined economic and public health calamity, repeating this deeply unequal history, experts say, with Black Americans likely to suffer elevated joblessness and poverty, vulnerability to infection, and poor health outcomes for many months to come.
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