We continue our series of articles that explore the racial health disparities exposed by COVID-19. during this interview, we examine the difficulty of incarceration as a public health concern within the us , also because the toll it takes on Black communities, especially within the context of the pandemic. The importance of incarceration for public health often gets overlooked. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) According to a number of the foremost recent data, Black Americans are 2.4 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than their white counterparts, and 2.2 times as likely as Asian Americans and Latin Americans. Other studies have also suggested that Black communities, followed by Latinx communities, are being hit the toughest by the pandemic. Through a series of Special Features and interviews, Medical News Today are trying to untangle a number of the mechanisms behind these racial disparities.