Black children with COVID-19 were more likely to become severely ill, be hospitalized or die during the pandemic than white children, according to a newly released study from Morehouse School of Medicine.
Morehouse School of Medicine researchers conducted the two-year study with a group that included other historically Black medical schools.
Examining data from the pandemic period between April 2020 and June 2021, they found Black children were more than two-and-a-half times as likely to lose a parent or other caregiver to the virus compared to white children.
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