People wait in line to get food distributed by the National Guard in Chelsea, Mass., on April 16.
Harvard researchers found areas with more poverty, people of color and crowded housing had higher mortality rates for the coronavirus.
Harvard researchers found areas with more poverty, people of color and crowded housing had higher mortality rates for the coronavirus.
Areas with "widespread economic segregation and heavy concentrations of poverty, people of color, and crowded housing" had higher mortality rates compared with everywhere else from the beginning of the year through April 15, they found.
"These are communities in which people may be working 'essential jobs,' where they're unable to practice physical distancing," Chen tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.
