Environmental justice and environmental racism

This World View article in the May 2020 issue of Nature offers a good introduction to the various environmental factors that have lead to a higher rate of death and illness in Black Americans.

Source: Politico. 2021-03-03

Published: 2021-03-12

In this critical moment, COVID-19 data is being collected, released, analyzed, interpreted, and used to inform recovery and response efforts. D4BL has worked to consolidate state level data to explore the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black people in the US. The D4BL COVID-19 Dataset captures state-level COVID-19 cases and deaths for Black people in the United States. D4BL established a team of volunteer data scientists to develop a codebase for automating the data extraction from state websites and storing it into this dataset. Explore our codebase on github.

NOTE: data collection ended 2021-03-07.
The COVID Racial Data Tracker is a collaboration between the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. Together, we’re gathering the most complete and up-to-date race and ethnicity data on COVID-19 in the United States.