Medical Xpress August 12, 2024
During the peak of COVID-19, the Black community experienced more deaths than the white community, 441.9 out of 100,000 Black persons compared to 268.5 out of 100,000 white persons in the U.S. The deleterious effects of COVID-19 then were compounded for many Black people by the highly publicized killings by police of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd that went viral on social media during the pandemic.
Both the American Psychological Association and the American Counseling Association reported that the pandemic, economic crisis and greater visibility of racial injustice resulted in a significant increase in mental health concerns for millions of people in the U.S.
In a new study, researchers at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine...
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