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Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black-White wealth gap was pronounced, with many studies discussing its magnitude. [40] Data from the Center for American Progress demonstrates that Black Americans, with less in way of savings, were harder hit economically by the pandemic-associated recession .
[363] [364] That same day, the FBI foiled a terrorist plot by a white supremacist to use a car bomb to blow up a Missouri hospital overflowing with COVID-19 patients, with the man having referenced far-right conspiracy theories that the virus was "engineered by Jews" online before he was shot and killed in an altercation with FBI agents.
White Americans have far higher incident rates of melanoma of the skin or skin cancer than any other race/ethnicity in the US. In 2007 incident rates among white American males were approximately 25/100,000 people, whereas the next highest group (Hispanics and natives) has an incidence rate of approximately 5/100,000 people. [44]
As of 2020, white Americans numbered 235,411,507 or 71% of the population, including people who identified as white in combination with another race. People who identified as white alone (including Hispanic whites) numbered 204,277,273 or 61.6% of the population, while non-Latino whites made up 57.8% of the country's population. [29]
[b] The COVID-19 pandemic also saw the emergence of misinformation and conspiracy theories, [39] and highlighted weaknesses in the U.S. public health system. [17] [40] [41] In the United States, there have been 103,436,829 [3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,210,067 [3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per ...
The first, a 2006 study in the American Journal of Epidemiology, found that, while white women and white men sleep over six hours a night on average, Black women sleep just 5.9 hours a night and ...
In a study in Michigan in 2020 regarding COVID-19, it is shown that Black people are 3.6 times more likely to die due to COVID-19. [19] In the United States, the mental health of African Americans has been shown to be negatively impacted by systemic racism, contributing to increased risk of mortality from substance use disorders.
Enumerators were instructed to no longer use the "Mulatto" classification. Instead, they were given special instructions for reporting the race of interracial persons. A person with both white and black ancestry (termed "blood") was to be recorded as "Negro", no matter the fraction of that lineage (the "one-drop rule"). A person of mixed black ...