African-Americans may be dying from Covid-19 at a higher rate due to pre-existing conditions of heart disease and diabetes among other diseases. This is scary to me.
The numbers may be higher for these neighborhoods, but it’s multiple causes. Poverty, lack of medical resources, tendencies to congregate with family, religious or social groups all make contagious disease spread quicker with deadlier outcomes. I would expect Appalachia’s regions of poverty to become hot spots soon, if they aren’t already.