Children of color disproportionately impacted by COVID-19

A child is tested for the COVID-19 virus |

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the nation’s health inequalities have become even more glaring, with millions of Americans of color, Black and Latino in particular, experiencing more severe illness and death due to COVID-19, than white Americans.

New data now reveals that the same racial and ethnic disparities which have affected adults throughout the pandemic, also extend to children of color. Black and Latino children have been affected by more COVID-19 related illness and death than other children.

Read the full story at ABC News | Health.