On Tuesday, May 19, the African American Research Collaborative in partnership with the NAACP and the Equity Research and Innovation Center at Yale School of Medicine presented new polling detailing the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on African American communities.
The poll is the first of its kind, with a deep dive into how African Americans are responding to the novel Coronavirus pandemic.
“These data shed light on some of the root causes driving disparate COVID-19 health outcomes for Black Americans,” said MarcellaNunez-Smith, Director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) at Yale School of Medicine.
It demonstrates how devastating economically and personally the pandemic has been on African American families and how little trust they have in the federal government and President Trump.
It is clear from our survey that African Americans are very concerned, not only about the racially-disparate impact of COVID-19 but also about the federal government’s laissez-faire approach to slowing down the spread of the virus,”said Dr. Ray Block, Director of the Research Project for AARC and Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies, Penn State University.
