Newswire: Study reveals staggering toll of being Black in America:1.6 million excess deaths over 22 years

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Newswire: Study reveals staggering toll of being Black in America:1.6 million excess deaths over 22 years

By Liz Szabo | KFF Health News Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.Now a new study, published Tuesday in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) casts the nation’s racial inequities in stark relief, finding that the higher mortality rate among Black Americans resulted in 1.63 million […]

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