Black and Brown Americans are susceptible to higher rates of infant mortality, heart disease, and even an advanced aging process.

Long before a white police officer killed George Floyd and sparked nationwide outrage, long before Covid-19 began killing Black people at twice the rate of their white counterparts, doctors and health experts were raising alarms that systematic racism is itself a pervasive, deadly pandemic – one that kills both instantaneously and insidiously, burdens Black and Brown Americans with generational trauma, contributes to higher rates of infant mortality and heart disease and even speeds up the aging process.

Source: theguardian.com