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Racial Gaps Persist As COVID-19 Death Toll Nears 600,000
The virus has proved adept at exploiting inequalities in the U.S., with Black and Hispanic people dying at higher rates.
Jerry Ramos spent his final days in a California hospital, hooked to an oxygen machine with blood clots in his lungs from COVID-19, his 3-year-old daughter in his thoughts.
- CARLA K. JOHNSON, OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and ANGELIKI KASTANIS AP Wire
- HuffPost
“I have to be here to watch my princess grow up,” the Mexican American restaurant worker wrote on Facebook.
“My heart feels broken into pieces.”
Ramos didn’t live to see it. He died Feb. 15 at age 32, becoming not just one of the nearly 600,000 Americans who have now perished in the coronavirus outbreak but…