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Adrianne Gladden-Young

Give Black Scientists a Place in This Fight

Of the 110,000 Americans who have died from complications of COVID-19, nearly a quarter of them were black: churchgoers, mourners, singers, school principals, police chiefs, public-transit operators, doctors and nurses, young and old.I am a scientist who, for the past nine weeks, has been studying the respiratory virus that is disproportionately killing people who look like me.

Give Black Scientists a Place in This Fight

Of the 110,000 Americans who have died from complications of COVID-19, nearly a quarter of them were black: churchgoers, mourners, singers, school principals, police chiefs, public-transit operators, doctors and nurses, young and old.I am a scientist who, for the past nine weeks, has been studying the respiratory virus that is disproportionately killing people who look like me.