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cord-305103-g0ndggwc	Sood, Lakshay	Being African American and Rural: A Double Jeopardy from Covid‐19	2020-05-03		.txt	text/plain	1752	131	51	The effect of COVID-19 on African Americans is better understood by analyzing the racial disparities related to previous pandemics caused by other types of coronaviruses. Results from all the different studies of the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic indicate that African Americans had higher mortality and case fatality rates than whites. 6 Rural states like Oklahoma documented highest hospitalization rates for African Americans and lowest for whites. 6 These data are comparable to those for COVID-19, where 33% of hospitalized patients nationwide (among those whose race was known) were African American, even though the latter constitute only 13% of the US population. 2 Why are African Americans at greater risk for COVID-19, as compared to other racial/ethnic groups? 11 Within this region, there are racial disparities in health care coverage that disproportionately affect African Americans. Racial disparities in exposure, susceptibility, and access to health care in the US H1N1 influenza pandemic	./cache/cord-305103-g0ndggwc.txt	./txt/cord-305103-g0ndggwc.txt